History Funny / TheRickyGervaisShow

* The first edition of Monkey News, where Karl recounts the (heavily embellish) tale of the first monkey in space. Hilarity ensues.

-->"I'm gonna die... I'm gonna die... They used to say, an apple a day... keeps the doctor away... THEY USED TO SAAAAAY!! ... They used to say pull your trousers up, now they're saying put them down, you cunt... I've never heard such fucking drivel..."

* From the XFM show, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKW-0VvjH0 Ricky and Steve's incredulous reaction]] ("NOOOOOOO!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?") to Karl suggesting that [[AcceptableTargets Chinese people don't age well]], followed in the next show by Karl's music quiz (where several tunes are mashed together) "I know you're just sixteen, but looking all of twenty one... That's because... Chinese... Look...''Older''" Made even funnier with the "Chinese" being taken from the song ''Walking on the Chinese Wall'' by Philip Bailey... where the word is song as "Chiiiiiiiiiiiiineeeeeeeeeeseeee".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBXZDS19A1I "Did I tell you about the immune system?"]] It takes Steve ''three tries'' to get through it without cracking up.

-->'''Steve''': Creator/TomCruise as Creator/TedDanson as Bryan as Creator/TomCruise as Ethan Hunt in [[MissionImpossible]] 8?

-->"I have never seen so many cross-eyed people in one place."

-->"Suzanne noted that your fingers get fat when you're older, too. She didn't laugh when I told her that her arse had the same problem."

* Karl's idea for a movie ''The Love Of Two Brains'' starring Rebecca DeMournay (who at the time had been retired from acting for fifteen years) and Clive Warren (who doesn't exist!). And though they know who Karl meant to say, (Clive Owens) Ricky and Steve insist on treating Clive Warren as a real person:

* "Rita... What?... This time l... I KNOOOW! You were packing fucking socks in a rubber-cunting bag!"

** The Scouse fella being surprised at a robber in his vineyard being Ay! Me Winehouse! Ricky opines that the answer ought to instead be “Ay! Get Out Me Winehouse!”

-->'''Ricky:''' Right, okay. I'm gonna stop you there. If a cyclist overtakes her, and is going really fast and is sort of hunched over but it's got like lots of cycling gear on and a helmet and goggles and they can't tell what it is but they just know it's just like a little hairy fella who hasn't bothered shaving his legs, which is weird, innit? 'Cause cyclists usually shave their legs and this bloke had ''really'' hairy legs. But it won, they gave it the medal, it won three years running, they gave it the key to the city, it had its own game show, and then someone said, "Hold on though, this fella's sort of hunched over and he's only 3 foot 5 and his arms are longer than his body...uhhh [[SuddenlyShouting IT'S A CHIMP!]] If it goes anywhere near that, we're never doing it again.

* Karl describes his hypothetical marriage to a World War 2 soldier in bizarrely specific detail. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hDrbDFOYnw Ricky's reaction]] is priceless. If you listen closely, you can hear the impact of ''Ricky's chair hitting the floor.''

* Stephen's experiences are hilarious in their own right.

* Karl giving his top 5 predictions of the future in "The Ricky Gervais Guide to... The Future" (also in season 2, episode 8 of the animated series). The predictions are all insane, but Ricky's reactions to them are hilarious themselves. By the time they're halfway through, Ricky is so out of his mind he starts babbling in between fits of laughter.

* Karl's idea for a movie ''The Love Of Two Brains'' starring the non-existent Clive Warren. And though they know who Karl meant to say, Ricky and Steve insist on treating Clive Warren as a real person:

* When talking about a poison dart frog with enough poison in its body to kill a thousand people:

* Karl gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCaxF1gG50 into a fight over a woman]]... when he was seven.

* Karl talking about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6bVFzJbLCY#t=1033 how he sat in the garden for 15 minutes just drooling on the grass]] in the Guide to the World Cup.

* Karl telling a story about an old man he was talking to wearing pink shorts while on vacation. Ricky questions why Karl was so focused on the man's shorts, and Karl tries to explain that the man's story was boring and he was trying to focus on something else causing Ricky to crack a few jokes about Karl staring at the man's crotch area. It's one of the few times where Karl actually laughs.
* Karl receiving a junk mail letter that misspelled his last name (Pilkington) as "Dilkington". Ricky's reaction (gasping laughter followed by his usual cackling laughter) to it is priceless. Not only that but Steve needed two attempts at getting the 'punchline' out.

* Stephen's experiences on the beach in Rio, and in the line of a nightclub.

* The first reading from Karl's diary, when he describes a trip to Gran Canaria.

** Immediately followed by Ricky falling off his chair.

* In the third season, Karl calmly explains that you can throw a baby out of the window and it won't get hurt, followed by Ricky and Steve explaning that ''you don't throw things out of the window!''
* Karl describes his hypothetical marriage to a World War 2 soldier in bizarrely specific detail. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hDrbDFOYnw Ricky's reaction]] is priceless:

* The car of the future, with in car toilet: "I'm sick of playing I-Spy, I'm 'aving a shit!"

** "I wonder if there's anything that she regrets in her life?"