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Absolutely Mental

S3 EP 7: Why do we lie?

Absolutely Mental

Ricky Gervais & Sam Harris

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ricky and Sam discuss the morality of lying, including white lies, Santa Claus, and the best excuse to get out of a party.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor and writer and comedian Ricky Gervais and his favorite

0:06.0

smart friend, philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris, are back again.

0:11.0

This time for season three, here's a clip from the new season of the hit series, Absolutely

0:15.6

Mental.

0:16.6

To purchase the full episode and the entire series, visit absolutelymental.com.

0:30.0

Hey, how's it going?

0:40.0

Good.

0:41.0

How are you?

0:42.0

I'm good.

0:43.0

I actually have a question for you that I've been forgetting to ask before we move to

0:48.0

anything that's on your mind.

0:50.0

We're at the moment where we're deciding whether or not to get a pet.

0:55.0

My two girls want a pet and it's the dog versus cat conversation.

1:00.7

I notice you're always tweeting pictures of your cat, but I know you're also a dog lover.

1:08.9

Do you not have a dog?

1:09.9

No, we cover other people's.

1:12.6

I go walking every day just to meet dogs.

1:15.1

I think I told you.

1:16.1

I talk about this in my stand-up that I know about 200 dogs by name and they're an absolute

1:21.9

joy, a dog, but there's two reasons why we don't have dog.

1:26.1

When I travel too much, you can leave a cat sitting and it's happy, it gets fed.

1:30.3

That's it.

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