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    Ricky Gervais donates eye-watering amount of tour money to charity

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    1. BestButtons on

      > Comedian Ricky Gervais has announced a substantial donation of almost £2.5 million to a range of animal welfare organisations, generated from the proceeds of his recent “Mortality” stand-up tour.

      > The 64-year-old entertainer **has distributed £2.43 million among 22 charities**, including prominent groups such as the PDSA, International Animal Rescue, Celia Hammond Animal Trust, and Animals Asia. These funds were raised from the additional profits garnered through platinum seating sales during his tour, which ran from 2024 to 2025.

      And not the first one:

      > This latest philanthropic effort follows a similar gesture from his previous ‘Armageddon’ tour, which earned him a Golden Globe and saw £1.9 million donated to charity.

      > This brings the total **charitable contributions from his four most recent specials to over £5 million**.

      > Among the other beneficiaries are Libearty Sanctuary, Pangea, Wild Futures, All Dogs Matter, Dogs On The Streets, Paws2Rescue, Edinburgh Dog And Cat Home, Saving Strays, Chaldon Animal Sanctuary, Turgwe Hippo Trust, Safe Haven For Donkeys, and Catastrophes Cat Rescue.

      > Further donations will support Finding Shelter Animal Rescue, Flori’s Friends Animal Rescue, NYC Second Chance Rescue, Helping Rhinos, and Retreat Animal Rescue.

      > The distribution sees four charities each receiving £150,000, 17 organisations allocated £100,000 each, and the remaining £132,000 designated for Nowzad.

    3. Historical_Owl_1635 on

      Almost certain people on here will look for a reason as to why this is actually a bad thing because it’s Ricky Gervais.

    5. dazmania616 on

      He’s always made it clear the money from the expensive seats at the front rows of his shows will always go to animal charities.

    7. ihateeverythingandu on

      I dislike his obsession with woke stuff but I can’t dislike a guy who helps animals. Credit to him for this move.

    11. BoomSatsuma on

      Philanthropy should be encouraged and congratulated.

      Rich people used to give back to society.

      Too much wealth is hoarded.

    12. Zaruz on

      Fair fucking play.

      He’s not my cup of tea, but credit where its due. We should absolutely all be praising and supporting this kind of thing, regardless of how you feel about the individual.

    13. PsycommuSystem on

      Fair play to him, as a saucer drinker who listens to the XFM shows every day and thinks his recent stuff is absolute shite, he does stand by his words when it comes to charity.

    15. Dissidant on

      Only time I’ve ever watched any of the awards stuff was him ripping the piss out of the room in the 2020 global globes. Also the reactions as the camera panned around were something. Still on YT as well

    16. Miserable_Invite1675 on

      People: “Oi Gerv, why you chasin’ the yanky dollar?”

      Gerv: “Can you fuck off, I’m raising money to save some animals!?”

    17. seadoubleyou73 on

      I am 100% convinced that his onstage persona is an act designed to bring idiots to his shows in order to extract money from them which he then donates.

    18. UseADifferentVolcano on

      This is objectively a good thing.

      I have known people who worked at animal charities though and they all said that a surprising amount of their supporters *hated* people. Like rabidly hated humanity and weren’t afraid to tell everyone. That’s why they chose animal charities.

      So that tracks. But still, the donations are objectively a good thing.

    20. real_grown_ass_man on

      eyewatering.. so 3 dollars? Or is it a donation to benefit test animals?

      jk. good on ya Ricky.

    21. uknihilist on

      He’s an absolute legend. I give to animal charities to the extent that I can and this guy also gives what he can, which is a lot. Huge respect.

    22. AutoPanda1096 on

      We should do anything and everything to celebrate philanthropy because it really is a great way to spread money around

      People whine about rich paying taxes but good God I don’t want the government having more money to waste.

      Go on millionaires+ Do something positive with the money you don’t need!

      And then we should all bloody celebrate it. Then it might just happen more.

      The Victorian age of philanthropy saw some amazing developments that would never have come from a government.

      I always think it’s mental the amount of grief eg Bill Gates has got for wanting to fight malaria.

      Go and leave a real legacy.

    23. newron on

      That’s not going ‘Ooh, look at me today, I’m entertaining whilst saving lives aren’t I brilliant?’, it’s going ‘If you think I’m brilliant, then give generously and help save these guys who are starving, but are also brilliant’-not as entertainers, a lot of them can’t even speak English, but you know don’t give them their own game show, but save them from dying at least.

    24. spank_monkey_83 on

      I didn’t like his stand-up, but I like his overall attitude. I have warmed to him over the years and now regard him as comedy royalty

    25. Ok-Celebration9123 on

      Can someone give me a TLDR on why everyone else can be joked about but not trans people

      As from what I get from this is that someone can make a Madeline McCann joke but as soon as someone jokes about trans it’s an issue