2025 · comedy
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
Directed by John L. Spencer1h 0m2025
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
Our read: Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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