Four uploads bring Gilbert, Sarah Millican and Sean Lock to the clips channel, with Gilbert's special filmed in Treorchy, Wales.
On YouTube, Universal Comedy has 601,000 subscribers and 275,953,687 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,215,293 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Sean Lock promotes lying to children 🤨", with 60,602 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 3,079 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 28 of 44 in category "Stand-up comedians".
YouTube: The numbers today
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 4,154,408 in the last 30 days
a new short video usually gets 24,004 views
YouTube: What happened lately
November 6, 2026 2.2x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 277,005 views a day, 2.2 times a normal day (123,857).
Universal Comedy's clip of the Newton argument passed 110,000 views in under a week, and a newer Gervais upload on religion followed it.
The video drawing the most views now
Sean Lock's Most Controversial Theory | Purple Van Man | Universal Comedy
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 3,363
- Video views, pace per day
- 5,508
- Views in its first 10 hours
- 3,363
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Stand-up comedians | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 3,079 of 5,393 | 28 of 44 |
| By views gained this week | 2,488 of 5,274 | 31 of 44 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 2,710 of 5,043 | 34 of 43 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.3% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.0% on this channel, 0.4% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Stand-up comedians
Views gained this week in the category Stand-up comedians
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 600,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 601,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 271,867,888 views → November 11, 2026: 275,953,687 views · average: 140,889 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 11.5 in the category: 39.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 0.4 in the category: 0.6
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 7,014 views
- short vs long
- 6 short (up to 3 minutes), 9 long
average views per short video: 27,270
average views per long video: 34,805
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Ricky Gervais On Hitler's Ideology | POLITICS | Universal C… | October 7, 2020 | 4:05 | 10,848,066 |
Romesh Ranganathan's Reveals his Real Name | Irrational | U… | March 13, 2022 | 10:36 | 7,317,998 |
Ricky Gervais Takes On Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi and Anne F… | May 12, 2021 | 10:30 | 6,397,443 |
Ricky Gervais Reads The Bible | Universal Comedy | July 12, 2020 | 8:41 | 6,323,046 |
Ricky Gervais On Teaching Morals To Children | BEST OF Poli… | May 13, 2020 | 10:26 | 6,097,865 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Why Guns Make Americans Happy - Rich Hall | Universal Comed… | December 22, 2022 | 0:43 | 4,065,567 |
James Acaster: Texts from Ex-Therapists | Universal Comedy … | October 18, 2022 | 0:57 | 3,032,729 |
Kevin Bridges Lists the Types of Shame| Universal Comedy | August 3, 2023 | 0:56 | 1,416,412 |
Pregnancy & Perineums (Jon Richardson) | Universal Comedy #… | October 27, 2022 | 0:54 | 1,371,083 |
James Acaster on Making Fun of Trans People #shorts | Unive… | October 21, 2021 | 0:59 | 1,193,433 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 277,005 views a day, 2.2 times a normal day (123,857).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 385,374 views a day, 3.4 times a normal day (113,099).
- Video surgingSean Lock's On 70s Comedians | Lockipedia | Unive… The video ran that day at 27,334 views a day, 2.3 times its usual pace (12,118).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 181,110 views a day, 2.1 times a normal day (88,229).
- Video surgingSean Lock's On 70s Comedians | Lockipedia | Unive… The video ran that day at 22,234 views a day, 2 times its usual pace (10,994).
Stories
Four uploads bring Gilbert, Sarah Millican and Sean Lock to the clips channel, with Gilbert's special filmed in Treorchy, Wales.
Universal Comedy's clip of the Newton argument passed 110,000 views in under a week, and a newer Gervais upload on religion followed it.

























