Comedy review: Ricky Gervais: Humanity

Ricky Gervais caused a minor media stir recently, when a grieving couple decried his routine about a hypothetical dead baby. Tweeting afterwards about offence, the comic struck me as theoretically correct but insensitive – surely discretion should be the better part of valour and he could spare them the distress of continuing the argument beyond the stage. Yet the incident, which went unmentioned in this Glasgow show, neatly illustrates Humanity’s core preoccupation and George Carlin’s maxim that it’s the comedian’s duty to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.