Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.
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00:00 I think we live too long. That's why we have time to worry about all this.
00:05 We're not meant to live this long. As a species, we're about 300,000 years old as homo sapiens.
00:12 We've been around as hominids for a few million years, and of course, along with every other life form that exists at the moment,
00:17 we've been evolving for three and a half billion years.
00:20 Everything that exists at the moment all came from the same little blob of organic matter three and a half billion years ago.
00:26 That's why it annoys me when people say, "Oh yeah, humans, we're the most evolved."
00:31 We're not the most evolved. We're no more evolved than the slug or the snail.
00:35 People go, "Oh, come on, look at them." Yeah, they got it right early doors.
00:38 Nature keeps testing them. "Do you want eyes?" "No."
00:42 [laughter]
00:45 "Not really?" "No."
00:49 I have noticed one thing about the slug and the snail. Let's not split hairs. Let's be honest.
00:54 The snail is basically a slug with a shell on it, isn't it?
00:58 But if you pull the shell off the snail, it starts giving it all, "Oh, I'm dying. I'm dying."
01:07 And the slug is like, "Welcome to the real world, ****."
01:11 [music]
01:17 [silence]