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Ricky Gervais Live: Animals

Ricky Gervais Live: Animals

Comedy · 2003

Ricky Gervais entertains a live audience in his first stand-up routine.

Movie details

Ricky Gervais Live: Animals

“Life on Earth: the bits David Attenborough left out”

2003 Comedy 1h 13m

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7.1 / 10

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Ricky Gervais entertains a live audience in his first stand-up routine.

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Directed by

Dominic Brigstocke

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

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Put Ricky Gervais Live: Animals on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.