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Ricky Gervais: Armageddon

  • TV Special
  • 2023
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
16K
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A stand-up show that touches on topics such as artificial intelligence, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and the end of humanity.A stand-up show that touches on topics such as artificial intelligence, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and the end of humanity.A stand-up show that touches on topics such as artificial intelligence, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and the end of humanity.

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    • John L. Spencer
  • Writer
    • Ricky Gervais
  • Star
    • Ricky Gervais
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    16K
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    • Director
      • John L. Spencer
    • Writer
      • Ricky Gervais
    • Star
      • Ricky Gervais
    • 83User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    elin93

    Good, but not his best

    Ricky was right about that joking about the horrible stuff in life makes it a bit more bearable to deal with. This is dark humor, so it's definitely not for the easily offended people.. not everyones cup of tea.

    I love Ricky, and I thought that Armageddon was good.. but it was definitely not his best. It was quite underwhelming, to be completely honest.. I enjoyed Humanity, Supernature and After life way more than this one. I really wanted to love Armageddon just as much as I love the other netflix stand-up specials, but it didn't happen this time.. it's okay though. Everybody has different preferences and tastes when it comes to most things in life. I'll just keep my hopes up that there will be more netflix specials from Ricky in the future.
    6loveglovedove

    Nothing new!

    I love Ricky, his other stand ups, presenting, series etc. Have all been some of my favourite comedy to watch. This felt a little repetitive though. His view on 'anything goes' when telling jokes, is something I fully believe in, but to convince the audience of his beliefs on this, he really pushed things to the limit. Many parts were truly cringeworthy! In addition, I feel that he knows many are critical of him, and this whole stand up was in response to them and their issue with him. What happened to silly Ricky? I miss those jokes! Next time, keep it light, let us laugh at something intelligent and not just constant controversy.
    6ty-23635

    Trying too hard to be offensive

    Love love love Ricky. But this special was lacking his usual creative genius. Seems like he just tried to be offensive for the sake of being offensive.

    Same themes hashed over and over. The old - anything can be jokes about. Comedians are artists. Just don't listen if you don't like it.

    No need to constantly explain you are just joking. You've got your audience, just tell stuff to us that's funny. No need to talk about those that don't watch your stuff.

    Took me three sittings to finish it.

    Hoping he just gets back to funny stuff and not explaining being offended at a joke is stupid.

    Just move on and go back to being funny.
    7CarlosDestazio

    It's Ricky, but not at his best.

    Ricky Gervais is one of the few great comics of our generation.. Supernature set the bar for standup specials, standing almost alone at the top.. (he had Chappelle for company with "The Closer")

    Armageddon is good, well worth a watch, but not "Supernature" or "The Closer" good. I found too many of the jokes a bit predictable, something that Ricky is usually great at avoiding, many eye rolling moments and a lot fewer spitting "laugh out loud" punchlines. I look forward to the next Gervais special, or anything that he produces really, while this is not his best work, a stand up comic of this level still delivers when not running on all cylinders.
    6kikkimikki

    Sure I laughed but was disappointed

    There were some good ones, the best one even improvised. But it was to much explaining about jokes not actual jokes. The audience seemed to cheer every anti woke opinion. Fair enough. But Ricky you can do better. Sad thing is that perhaps the bar of whats funny or not has been lowered but I still have to give it a 6/10. And Im being nice. The culture seems to be more focused on issues and politics nowadays than actual punchlines, buildup and all that. Everyones doing the same and they got it all from somebody else. Now as I said there was still a few good laughs a little further into the special. I know comedy is hard and Im just a critic. But when Ive seen his earlier specials and other comedians tearing the roof of I gotta be objective about it.

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      Ricky Gervais: People going, "No, it should be played by a real disabled creature." They're going, "The actor should have the same disability as the person they're portraying." But it was the life story of Stephen Hawking, right? So for the first part of the file, the cunt could walk, right? So I put it to you, what is easier? Getting an actor who can walk, pretend he can't for the last bit of the film, or get an actor who can't walk, pretend he can for the first bit? How would that even fucking work? Puppetry? Think!

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      Featured in Credlin: Episode #7.246 (2023)

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 2023 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Рікі Джервейс: Армагеддон
    • Filming locations
      • The London Palladium, UK(End credits)
    • Production company
      • Derek Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 3m(63 min)
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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