Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 - The Stand-Up Special (2010 TV Special) User Reviews

Excellent

[ZCT · 9/10 · 19 December 2010]

I really enjoyed this comedy special from Ricky Gervais. He's a truly funny man, and certainly one of the best in England right now.

He seemed pretty at ease with himself during the performance, and as with other such stand up routines I've seen him do, he sipped a beer (or at least something from a Foster's can throughout the show.

His material was very funny in a lot of parts, but some of the material will be highly offensive to some, especially some of the sexual references.

My only real criticism is that one part of his act was clearly lifted out of his recent HBO TV show, and another part I'd seen somewhere else before. Somehow that takes the edge off it a little.

All in all though, if you like fairly British humor, and are not easily offended, this is something you should enjoy.

Funny funny funny

[Lightseven · 10/10 · 12 January 2011]

I love this guy. He says every snarky thing that goes through our heads, only he says it out loud. Sooooo funny. Rude? Yes. True?

His Noah reading, the whole fat segment, the Flying after 9/11- so bitingly, brutally honest that it is hilarious.

Ricky Gervais is not only a brilliant comic but he's a brilliant human being. His inquiry into the things we lose in our peripheral vision any given day makes me also stop when seeing some incongruous item strolling past me while whistling and I find myself thinking, "Hold on a minute! Did you just do what I think you did?"

He's so right, that there is no area of comedy that should not be explored. You should be able to joke about any and everything; it just depends what that joke is. Ricky entertained for an hour and throughout managed to be both outrageous and to not be cruel.

Some topics may make you blush if you're sitting with a prude watching this, but that's OK,it's on HBO On Demand and you can just watch it again, alone, after the prude leaves and laugh your @@s off like you wanted to the first time.