Animals is a stand-up show written and performed by the comedian Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...

. As the title suggests Gervais uses aspects of the animal kingdom as his central theme. The show toured in 2003 and is now available on DVD.

Introduction

Animals begins with a short film produced by Gervais. It opens with wildlife films of lions copulating, with Gervais providing a comic voiceover. Following this is a vignette in which he wines and dines a woman. Following the meal he takes her back to his house. Gervais goes to the toilet and sees a pornographic magazine on the side. The scene cuts to him leaving the toilet and the woman saying, "make love to me". Gervais replies that he cannot as he just masturbated in the toilet and will be "half hour at least." The live stand-up performance directly succeeds this short film.

Stand-up

Following the clip is a large section of stand-up containing jokes covering "life on earth (the bits David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...

 left out!)" This includes reading the beginning of the Bible and offering comic insight to it. Also, jokes about internet animal trivia pages and animal homosexuality.

DVD Extras

The Animals DVD includes an audio commentary with Ricky and a behind the scenes featurette that documents Ricky's preparations before the show as well as the editing of the introductory short with long-suffering editor of The Office

The Office (UK TV series)

The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious...

 and Extras: Nigel Williams.
Stephen Merchant

Stephen Merchant

Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the...

is the cameraman for most of this featurette.