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The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.
Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.
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Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
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Do this or you’ll burn in hell.
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Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.
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People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: you're not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by the rules you know.
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
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She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
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I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.
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I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
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I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, well, why's he getting the special treatment?
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I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
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