Ricky Gervais: Humanity May 2026

A surreal flight of fancy involving "species reassignment surgery" to become a chimp named Bobo, used to satirize arguments around identity.

Gervais spends a significant portion of the set addressing the backlash to his jokes (particularly from his Golden Globes hosting stints) and arguing that "you can laugh at bad things without being a bad person". Ricky Gervais: Humanity

The special is structured less like a traditional joke-set and more like a series of on the state of the world. A surreal flight of fancy involving "species reassignment