Watch or listen to the stand-up comedy special 'SuperNature' (2022) by Ricky Gervais on Comedy Buff. Transcript available.

Ricky Gervais

SuperNature

I think we live too long that's why we have time to worry about all this we're not meant to live this long as a species we're about 300,000 years old as homo sapiens we've been around as hominids for a few million years and of course along with every other life form that exists at the moment we've been evolving for three and a half billion years everything that exists at the moment all came from the same little blob of organic matter three and a half billion years ago that's why it annoys me people say oh yeah humans we're the most evolved we're not the most evolved we're no more evolved than the slug or the snail people go oh come on look at them yeah they got it right early doors nature keeps testing them do you want eyes no not really I have noticed one thing about the slug and the snail let's not split hairs let's be honest the snail is basically a slug with a shell on it isn't right but if you pull the shell off the snail it starts giving it all oh oh I'm dying I'm dying and the slug is like welcome to the real world you