#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ricky Gervais calls to discuss Sam's monster joke from their last conversation and then other things happen...

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0:00.0	Hey Ricky. Hi, quick one. I've been thinking about your dream, your joke in your dream.
0:21.6	And as we comedians say, I think it deserves more.
0:24.8	A little bit more, yeah. Yeah, no, I actually make it funny. Yeah, it is. No, it is.
0:31.6	It is. Sometimes it's funny for the wrong reasons and on the meta level. Well, first of all,
0:36.2	it's funny that you told me it. It's funny that you that you told me that and I was underwound.
0:46.3	And it's like you've been through that once because the funniest thing, of course, is an
0:49.2	eminent thinker waking their partner up and going, I've just dreamt a great joke. That's funny
0:56.8	already. Listen, you had Onika laughing at the phrase eminent thinker. Yeah, well, wait, but so
1:05.4	so it's good. This is what I want to talk about. So it sounds like a joke. It sounds like a child's
1:12.2	joke. Even the premise, you know, what noise does a monster make? Now that's a simple, you think
1:18.8	it's going to be a pun, some sort of play on words, what noise does it matter? But it's better than
1:23.6	that because there's even a play on there in your in your joke because we think it means a noise
1:30.6	a monster consciously makes a roar or a grure. But no, it's the it's the involuntary sound it
1:37.6	makes because it's big and it's heavy and it's it can't help that noise. It doesn't want to make
1:42.0	that noise. So that's funny already. We even posed this as this monster making this
1:47.7	noise, but it's just because he's big and heavy. Right? So that's that's funny, right? Because of
1:56.0	course, right? And you and the other thing is you've learned that noise from cartoons and theatre
2:02.2	productions because a monster doesn't make that noise. You've learned that from cartoons and theatre
2:07.5	productions. Okay? And here's what's the funny bit for me is that I think you think that's funny
2:15.6	in your subconscious sort of dreamy state because I think you invented that. I think you think you
2:23.2	invented that noise a monster makes even though you've learned it from cartoons and theatre productions.
2:29.6	That's why I think you think it's so funny because I think subconsciously you think,
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