Fully aware of his status as a mini-god to the anti-PC crowd, Gervais clocks up his best stand-up special yet as he rubs against the grain on a wide variety of hot-button topics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2020

Even when a few genuine spontaneous smiles sneak through, "Humanity" has the air of something Gervais feels obliged to do, either to feed some nonexistent need to bolster his cred as Bad Boy of Comedy.

| Dec 28, 2018

Inflating his ego is part of what you're paying for with Gervais, but this is irritating even for him.

| Dec 28, 2018

Thanks to Netflix, billions of people around the world now think they can justify their hate with mediocre jokes as well.

| Dec 28, 2018

Gervais shows the brightest signs of his own humaneness when talking about his closest relatives.

| Dec 28, 2018

His gift for obscenity is authentic and sometimes breathtaking, and he's an equal-opportunity satirist. He can make everyone uneasy and sometimes that's the most necessary, incendiary kind of comedy.

| Dec 28, 2018

It's likely some will interpret what the British comedian intends as wit to be wrongdoing instead.

| Dec 28, 2018

It's baffling that Gervais can have so much reverence for physical evolution and so little for intellectual evolution.

| Dec 28, 2018

His Humanity makes you hope for an extinction level event, and soon.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Dec 28, 2018

The title Humanity is ironic in ways that Gervais didn't realize: The title tells you what's missing.

| Dec 28, 2018

There 's something frankly undignified about somebody as successful as him effectively going on stage for an hour and a half to whine about the mean things people say to him on the internet, but when Humanity hits the mark it hits it hard.

| Mar 19, 2018

This feels like his most cohesive show to-date, the most consistently funny and most heart-on-sleeve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2018

If you're someone who works online all day, there's a shade of truth there, but at times during Humanity it feels like Gervais is just calling out random Twitter trolls and not necessarily looking deeper at his own issues.

| Mar 13, 2018

This is the first Ricky Gervais standup special in seven years... the ease with which he continues to command the stage, totally controlling the rhythms and reactions while seeming fully conversational, is even more astounding.

| Mar 13, 2018

It is a much better, less fragmented, more controlled show than Science, and it is such a pleasure to watch Gervais work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2018