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Absolutely Mental

S1 EP 2: What makes something funny?

Absolutely Mental

Ricky Gervais & Sam Harris

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this teaser of episode 2, Sam calls Ricky to discuss where to draw the line in comedy. Ricky thinks everything is on the table. Except the word “vagina.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Sam Harris.

0:02.5

This is part of my conversation with Ricky Gervais from the second episode of our podcast

0:06.5

series, Absolutely Mental.

0:08.7

You can purchase the full episode along with the rest of the first season at absolutelymental.com.

0:18.8

What can't you joke about?

0:21.5

As you go hard, I'm surprised, occasionally, I recall how edgy you are in certain contacts

0:30.8

when you're golden globe stuff is just murder, right?

0:34.4

You're murdering people in the room, but have you course corrected in recent years?

0:40.6

Well, obviously, wasn't there?

0:41.6

You didn't do it a few years ago?

0:43.2

I sense the things.

0:45.4

I have a set of rules, and that's depending on the forum as well.

0:52.4

I wouldn't do a kid's party and talk about the things I talk about live.

0:57.0

In fact, I feel uncomfortable live if I'm doing something, I try and make it 16 and over,

1:04.2

so I can relax that I'm not corrupting the youth.

1:09.4

I play by the rules of TV, and the golden globe is a very good example.

1:14.0

If you think about it, that was network television at peak time, 5 p.m. that went out across

1:19.4

America, and I didn't break any broadcast rules, so it couldn't have been that bad.

1:24.6

How could you get away with Dame Judy Dench licking her?

1:28.2

I forget the word.

1:29.2

But there's a minge.

1:30.2

Okay, that's a really interesting one.

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