Ricky Gervais - The 11 O'Clock show WW2 skit 1998

Ricky Gervais performing a skit about World War 2 on the 11 O'Clock show in 1998.

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Comedy

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• comedyloon06
• ricky
• gervais
• world
• war
• II
• WW2
• WWII
• comedy
• 11
• O'clock
• show
• skit
• funny
• humour
• 1998
• french
• ginger
• midget
• british
• english

[eminemfansite]

Not as good as he used to be? He's got funnier. He's infinitely funny, he's like the only comedian I immediately start laughing at when he talks. Just the way he sarcastically dubs certain words and shifts his eyes etc. He's a comic genius.

[CanisRufus123]

Or maybe your sense of humour isnt what it used to be.

[Bigchimpin87]

The chubby funster

[100percentgiver]

obviously most of what happened in world war 2 was horrible, but at the same time, if you cant take a step back and laugh about it when someone has made a very clever use of satire, your probably boring.

also, the joke wasn't really about hiroshima, it was more to do with a marine not wanting to fly something with the name "gay".

[bensimps123]

@eminemfansite まぁまぁですね。

[kalifire]

This is genuinely terrible. "HAHA, GAY!!"

[kelliop]

God, he was shite back then too.

[fasteddyuk]

@timtak1 "this joke which suggests that the only regrettable thing of the bombing of Hiroshima was that the name of the plane turned out to mean homosexual"

That's the joke. The attitude of the 'hard as nails' pilot who considers it an 'honour' to drop a bomb! "I wouldn't want any part of it to come back and haunt me" is probably the most important line. He's more concerned with sexual taints than wholesale slaughter! It's about ludicrous inhumanity in times of war.

[fasteddyuk]

@timtak1 You have totally misinterpreted the joke. How can you get offended by something you don't fully understand?

[timtak1]

@fasteddyuk

I think that a lot of Japanese people would be offended by this joke which suggests that the only regrettable thing of the bombing of Hiroshima was that the name of the plane turned out to mean homosexual. Whatever one thinks of Hiroshima, Nagasaki was just plain evil. Four days later, a few thousand more incinerated children. And here is one of the "allies" making a joke out of it. Yeah.

[fasteddyuk]

@timtak1 You're missing the point, and are getting offended where you needn't be.

[timtak1]

@fasteddyuk

"I would not want any part of it to come back and haunt me in years to come"" "What could?"

The punchline is that the word gay has come to mean homosexual, so you could say that is what it is "about" but Gervais builds up comic tension by presenting a pilot that is more concerned (haunted) about the fact that his plane is called gay than the fact that he is about to incinerate 10,000 children. Taking a step back, or from a Japanese perspective, the pilot and Gervais are ****s.