★★★☆☆
It used to be that comedians did their warm-ups in rooms above pubs for a tenner a go. Not Ricky Gervais. The lord of all comedy’s Super Nature tour is still palpably a work in progress, but even shows in 3,000-seaters like this are selling out in minutes. Hubris? Hardly a complaint to Gervais, who continues to make his outlandish success a joke to be shared with his audience. Dressed in his uniform of jeans and black T-shirt, he is quick to touch on his nice homes, nice life, nice multimillion-pound Netflix deal. Often he cracks a joke, then says, “That’s not going in.” Want to see the finished item? Watch it when it migrates to the arenas or, more likely, to Netflix.
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