Haven't watched the latest Gervais as it's been diminishing returns and the last one was absolutely shite. The bit where he was being the AIDS virus or whatever it was was among the poorest stand up I've ever seen.
It felt like one of those tester shows that stand ups do these days, where they run through unfinished routines. I was genuinely amazed to find out that Gervais does participate in those. I assumed he'd skipped the process entirely. Hard to explain how the AIDS bit survived to the final show.