Courage to Be Honest - On Stage with Ricky Gervais
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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Ricky Gervais: A Funny Court Jester in a Dark Time
He's a happy man with an endearing smile, a laughing court jester in a dark time. He uses humor to lift us all out of despond. As he himself said, if you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? Humor is to get us over terrible things. If you'd been all in black, that would have looked like a really amazing trick. I thought you'd do that with a pair of your mind."
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