Ricky Gervais has vowed to perform on stage when he’s old and his body breaks down and he’ll even do gags sitting on a commode.
The outspoken comic says that back pain and his physical shape are so bad that he may soon need to be helped on stage.
But he’s got a sneaky trick up his sleeve to keep his audience blissfully unaware he’s on the bog.
He said: “I love doing stand-up but standing up is the worst bit of it, as I have got a bad back.
“So, I think soon I’ll just be on a commode. It’ll be a little blanket on me, I will be going, and they won’t even know – there’ll be a nurse with the drip. They’ll think it’s blood but it’s red wine.
“And then now and again, I’ll just go, ‘Empty it!’ That’s how I see my future in stand-up. You’ve got to have a dream.”
The award winning After Life and The Office creator, 60, reflected on his future as he promoted his new Netflix special SuperNature.
Gervais admits that he is staggered to be so popular and says he never puts on any airs and graces.
He said: “I never try to be above the audience. I’m an idiot.
“I go out there and I look awful. I’m fat and I’m old and I’m going to die from drinking beer. And I’m rubbish. And I think they appreciate that.”
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The funnyman is known for making jokes which are close to the bone but he told NBC’s Today show: “I make fun of everything in humanity with no prejudice.
“That’s what comedy’s for, it gets us over bad stuff. Things aren’t frightening anymore.
“When you’re dealing with, you know, famine, AIDS, cancer, Hitler, those dudes are evergreen. Yeah, so they’re not going to, they don’t date.
“I deal with taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn’t been before and there is a tension.
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“And I think people get offended when they mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target.
“Smart people know you can deal with anything, particularly when dealing with something like irony.”
Gervais admits he’ll never be let loose at hosting the Oscars, admitting he would be a victim of cancel culture before the ceremony even ended.
He said Academy Awards’ chiefs would never allow him carte blanche to write his own gags at Hollywood’s biggest night.
Ricky said: “They’d never let me do what I wanted.”
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