Ricky Gervais: SuperNature

00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,520 [audience cheering and applauding] 521 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,080 No, I… I do love cats. Um… 522 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,920 I really love dogs. We haven't got a dog 'cause we travel too much, usually. 523 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,720 But wherever we are in the world, New York or London, 524 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,840 we go for a walk every day just to meet dogs, 525 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,440 in Central Park or Hampstead Heath. 526 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,040 I know about 200 dogs by name now, 527 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,280 and you always meet a few of your little friends, 528 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,160 and it sets me up for the day. It's like my fucking heroin. 529 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,640 And if you meet a brand-new dog, you go, "Hello," 530 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,120 he's never met you before, and if you're nice to it, 531 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,960 he's just met you, and suddenly you're best-- 532 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,280 He'd do anything for you. "Need a kidney?" They are amazing, dogs. 533 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:31,920 It makes me laugh, that sign people put on their house, 534 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,360 "Beware of the dog." That makes me wanna go in the house to meet it. 535 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,480 So if you wanna keep me out of your house, 536 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,560 put up a sign that says, I dunno, "Beware of the AIDS," you know? 537 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,160 [audience laughing] 538 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,280 Although that's not as good as it was, is it, AIDS? 539 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:50,960 No, seriously, it's like all diseases let you down, 540 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:51,960 but that was… 541 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,520 I mean, in its heyday, it was fucking amazing, wasn't it, AIDS? 542 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,560 [audience laughing] 543 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,120 Coronavirus? Fuck off. 544 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,240 That couldn't… couldn't hold a candle to AIDS. 545 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,520 [audience laughing] 546 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,320 In the '80s, two blokes talking, it would be, "Oh, will you suck my cock?" 547 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,360 "Fuck off. You've got AIDS. I'd die." 548 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Now it's, "Give it here. I'll take pills for the rest of my life." 549 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,360 -There's no… -[audience laughing] 550 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,480 But the bigots jumped on it in the '80s, the Christian right, 551 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,800 all fundamentalists, actually, by going, "This is God's wrath." 552 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,080 "This is God's punishment for homosexuality." 553 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,280 Imagine thinking that. 554 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:30,920 What are you imagining in your head to think that's true? 555 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,880 So you think God's in heaven, do you, 556 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,160 and he's looking down on civilization, 557 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,880 and he suddenly goes, "I'm sick of all this bumming"? 558 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,440 [audience laughing] 559 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,920 "I mean, what the--" 560 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,520 "Oh, come on, lads! What's going-- What?" 561 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,800 [audience laughing] 562 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,040 "Oh, look at…" 563 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:48,600 "I've warned 'em. It's in the Bible." 564 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,440 "No bumming." Not in those words. 565 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,480 [audience laughing] 566 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:52,920 Leviticus 28:11. 567 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,280 "Any man who lieth with another man as he doth a woman, 568 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,800 they are both an abomination and shall surely be put to death." 569 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,560 -Basically, no bumming, right? -[audience laughing] 570 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,360 So he went, "They're taking the piss. I've gotta do summat." 571 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,040 "I know. AIDS." Like that. 572 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,400 Like he did with light, just like, "Oh, it's dark. What can I do?" 573 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,800 "Light," right? "Let there be light." 574 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,440 The same with this. "Let there be AIDS." 575 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,080 "And there was AIDS." 576 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,760 Not on earth, but up in his laboratory, right? 577 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,240 So he'd made the AIDS, all there, 578 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,800 horrible little things, right, "There you are." 579 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:25,880 [growls] 580 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,720 You couldn't see 'em, but he could see 'em. 581 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,720 [growls] Like that, right? 582 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,720