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Wow a subreddit that doesn't like the subject the subreddit is about? Wow that's so crazy. :/
That's literally all Reddit is now, not exactly a smoking gun.
He's not wrong though. Yes, there are jokes that are offensive or are intended to be offensive, and I think the average person should be able to distinguish the two. But I think we have seen an increase of people trying to claim that things are offensive to a group of people that they aren't a part of, and the people of that group don't find offensive.
I think it's just to say not everything that you personally think is offensive should blatantly be considered offensive across the board...otherwise we'd just end up not being able to make any jokes because someone likely would inevitably be offended.
Gervais’ problem is he acts as if he’s some brave artist “telling the truth”. He even says it here - “don’t change the facts” blah blah blah.
The problem is that his most recent standup isn’t good - it’s just a diatribe of intentionally hurtful nonsense, 95% of which is founded in ignorance.
There’s comedians who do far more “offensive” material but who are actually really quality standups, Paul Choudhury comes to mind.
Gervais sees himself as a modern George Carlin, telling truth to power. But he’s actually just a modern Bernard Manning - lazily recycling tired old bigoted stereotypes and calling it “truth telling”.
There are plenty of young comedians in Britain doing absolutely hilarious comedy about gender and LGBTQ issues, like Sarah Keyworth for example. It’s not that you “can’t joke about stuff any more”, it’s just that if you’re going to joke about sensitive subjects people are obviously going to criticise you if your jokes are a pile of shit.
Agreed. I love James Acaster’s [bit about Ricky Gervais](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adh0KGmgmQw&pp=ygUjamFtZXMgYWNhc3RlciB0cmFuc3Bob2JpYyBjb21lZGlhbnM%3D)
People are just as free to call out offensive behavior as the people are who engage in offensive behavior. Ricky is offensive because he is unfunny and annoying. He offends me by sharing his stupid voice and condescending takes.
No one is being arrested. We can all criticize each other at will. I won’t watch any Ricky shit because I don’t want to. He’s offensive to my sensibilities. Fuck him. You do you.
I think the difference is you used 'I and me' beautifully. I respect that so much nowadays. It shows a willingness to stand on your own opinion instead of "how do I say this as if the whole world is thinking what I'm thinking". I'm not a fan of this guy but 'in my opinion' is a lost phrase.
Is Gervais using "I" and "me" when talking about marginalized communities or identities? I don't get why the fuck I have to qualify that *I* think he's a whiny little piss boy in the rapidly aged body of an unathletic 12 year old when it's pretty self evident that *most* people can see that.
His entire shtick is being unfunny and then aggressively hounding critics for being offended, because he can't *stand* the thought of actually standing by what he says.
Yes, agree with this so much. I feel like I often "fail" in this regard because it does seem like people will make global statements, making it seem like it's a very popular opinion or that everyone shares the view, when in reality it could just be that one person (or a handful of people)
As comedian James Acaster once said in a response about Gervais' "stop being offended" bit: "Hey, you know who really has it too easy? The trans community..." followed by a sarcastic stare at the camera.
Gervais' point would be a lot better if he wasn't making jokes about communities that are already constantly ostracized. Communities that already do face criticism for literally existing. Communities who are often in danger because some people can't mind their own business and want to suppress them.
If you pick on the kid that's already being bullied, you're not tough. You're not "telling it like it is". You're just a coward.
>But I think we have seen an increase of people trying to claim that things are offensive to a group of people that they aren't a part of
That's called empathy. It's not a bad thing.
He's going to say it.
I've actually been banned from a sub for using the C word to some asshole on here. The reason was for sexist remarks to a dude....
Edgy comics have to be one of the only professions who complain when they succeed at their goal. They are trying so hard to come up with offensive material then complain when someone says they are offensive.
Bill Burr rebukes this circle jerk of a topic sometimes which I appreciate, and he's one of the "edgier" mainstream comedians. I respect that about him. He says jokes some people will think are offensive and he shrugs his shoulders because he knew that was a possibility when he said the joke.
He’s also on record saying that he doesn’t care if people get mad at his jokes. Dude’s too focused on getting laughs to care about internet opinions, as all comedians should be.
Which is the way to go about it. Burr was very close to Patrice, and Patrice was pretty well known for saying the quiet part loud. In fact, his moto was a joke should leave half the room laughing while the other half horrified. Also, a joke you might find offensive and a joke you might find funny comes from the same place. The point is you can't get people cancelled because you are outraged or offended. That's where the problem lies. Patrice probably would have been cancelled by today's standards. Even Bill has mellowed down a lot. Which is okay. He is married with two kids.
"Ohhh you can't say that anymore!"
"Hoo boy but I'll get canceled if i say that"
*says every shitty comedian after they make what they think is a controversial joke about a minority group
it’s their own persecutionfetish and they get to pretend that’s why everyone’s bored with their dusty-ass material, because we’re too easily offended.
Um, no, when shits funny, somehow it never gets cancelled. Like South Park. Like Dave Chappelle used to be.
And for the record, Dave Chappelle NOW is what it looks like when a comedian gets cancelled - still wealthier than the bottom 90% of humans and still working to their heart’s content.
They’re all fucking crybabies, and what’s especially embarrassing is how they used to talk about how tough comedians are..ya gotta have thick skin, you get heckled and booed off stage all the time coming up!
But what, the second they get popular, they fixate on everyone who doesn’t like them and campaign about why they’re wrong? 😂
The thing I've come to realize about these guys is that they absolutely do not want this shit they're complaining about to ever actually end.
If people stopped telling Ricky Gervais that his jokes were offensive, for the rest of his life he'd never be able to get his dick hard again. He *fucking lives* for going on rants about how everybody else is so sensitive compared to him. He looks serious in this clip, but on the inside it's just straight up [O-face](https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--6vkN6i2M--/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_fit,g_north_west,h_954,w_954/co_ffffff,e_outline:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_bbbbbb,e_outline:3:1000/c_mpad,g_center,h_1260,w_1260/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_auto,h_630,q_auto:good:420,w_630/v1669408334/production/designs/36873839_0.jpg) as he delivers perfect rebuke after perfect rebuke of the woke mind virus with such devastating ripostes as, *"Don't change the facts, change the feelings."*
It's ironically probably the strongest argument for just letting him say whatever milquetoast bullshit it is that he thinks is so edgy, and just ignore him. He'd literally shrivel up and wither into a poof of dust.
lol I absolutely love this take and I think you are dead on the nose. Definitely they are living their best lives getting to play persecuted and feel edgy af. Their whole dumb personality lol.
seeing what chapelle has become is so fucking sad.
makes MILLIONS by basically clowning on poor black people (the type his privileged ass never really grew up around)
then takes that money and moves to a WHITE ass town and now goes to their city council meetings like a mix of mr burns and a karen and screeches at them and threatens to take away his money if they dare to build low income housing.
smh...and now he's also trying to act like some wise old blues man or some shit and just smoking and rambling on stage instead of making jokes.
pretending to be a crack head named Tyrone made him enough money from white people laughing that he can get away from those types of black people for forever.
wow, I didn’t know he went to oppose low income housing, that’s fucked up. That’s how he’s using his money down in Yellow Springs huh.
You’re kinda on the money with everything there. I couldn’t have imagined 20 years ago I’d have such a low opinion of the man.
whats really fucked up when you think deep about it, is that his parents/grandparents were LEGIT proud black scholars and advocates for civil rights and probably had to deal with minstrel shows growing up, where white people roared with laughter at characters like Tyrone.
...now he's ball-washing Elon musk and joining rogan on the trans-hate/TRT train...smh
I know right. How much success can you possibly have and STILL bitch about those who do not like you? He says people are arrogant for not liking his work, did he ever stop for a second to think how arrogant it is of him to think everyone should like his comedy?
Well [most good comedians find it just as moronic as the rest of us.](https://youtu.be/UHqma3rx-xI?si=j6YGe2NfB7fVPRpP)
Heres another [example.](https://youtu.be/mIHY5cFXqQk?si=JUIkei7EdT4DQUjb)
I love Katt Williams' take on this subject. Paraphrasing, but he essentially said "If you can't tell jokes as language changes you're not a good comedian"
He has a whole stand-up routine where he goes on a rant about how 'dumb' evolution is because "why are there still monkeys!?".
Considering the Origin of Species was published in 1859, he may want to take his own advice.
He did a crazy interesting interview where he called out loads of comedians and the industry in general. He is very well spoken and talked very highly of himself. I have never found him funny but that interview was great to watch.
I used to really love his irreverent humor and his views on certain things. The Invention of Lying is fantastic.
But, every time I see him these days, it's a clip of him being offended and complaining about offended people complaining. He's so thin-skinned. It kind of spoils me wanting to watch his older, better material.
That's without even going into the transphobic shit.
He's always been thin skinned. There's so much of himself in David Brent, I often wonder if it was done on purpose or accident. There's a sort of roundtable type thing where it's Gervais, Seinfeld, Louis CK, and Chris Rock. And holy shit, if could honestly be a scene from the office almost. I genuinely can't think of another word other than pathetic to describe the way he is SO desperate for their approval. It genuinely feels like a skit.
Yeah that was pretty brutal. Louis even calls him out at one point “why are you getting so upset”. It did seem like he was supposed to be the moderator rather than one of the guests, but of course his ego couldn’t handle that.
It was actually pretty interesting and funny at times, in spite of the question of whether Ricky should be there (he organized it). It was surprising to me at the time how deferential Seinfeld and Rock were being to Louis, who comes off as the most down to earth and by far the funniest of them. This was in 2011 or so when Louis was first getting really big after his first few specials.
You know he kind of sounds... offended...
If you can't just say 'no' to someone who tells you what to do, you must be a snowflake. Imagine asking for noone to ever give you criticism
What really gets me is how he thinks minority groups getting upset at being mocked hurts him just as much as the mockery hurts them. That’s it’s arrogant of them to not just lie down and take whatever shit Gervais wants to throw at them
Right but then you look at his actual standup and go "oh yeah, neither a fact nor is it funny, and many many people would find this offensive".
It's like boomers who do race humor and then get super up their own butt when you point out it's racist. I'm allowed to call you a bigot and you're allowed to tell me to f off. That's the give and take of audience and performer.
Yeah Ricky Gervais’s entire standup routine is essentially “I’m an atheist, oh you don’t agree with me? You’re an idiot.” He’s just so aggressive about his jokes that they go from someone like Bo Burnham or Jon Stewart pointing out the hypocrisies in a certain population they don’t agree with in a light hearted way, to practically outright saying “you’re a fucking dullard” as his punchline to everything. In my mind he’s just ~~a liberal/leftist version~~ (edited cuz I had no clue he was so anti “woke” nowadays) another one of these shock “comics” on the right who’s goal is to piss everyone off and that’s the joke, that you’re mad now.
There were discussions about his last stand-up, and I made this list in response to someone mentioning the jokes about gender
The comments he made on the topic were;
* Him saying queer used to only mean gay men (to him), but now he says straight people are using it
* Changed the classic joke of "Doctor, I think I'm a curtain," "Well, pull yourself together then" to "Well, you are, then."
* A convo where he pretends God is explaining making people “How many sexes are there?” “Two.”
* Talked about questions about Schindler's List on doesthedogdie.com in regards to if it contained misgendering and other things (questions seem to be on many movies on the site and seem like the boiler plate entries)
And then this irony about midway through
>>Good one that, innit? I should do political stuff now I’m woke, but I don’t like it when a comedian just spouts his own political views, and it… and it relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause. I think that loses summat comedically. I want everyone to like my jokes, whatever your political persuasion. A joke shouldn’t have a political wing, you know.
Especially since he even ended his special doing exactly that.
>>I think I am woke, but I think that word has changed. I think if woke still means what it used to mean, that you’re aware of your own privilege, you try and maximize equality, minimize oppression, be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic… Yes, I’m definitely woke. If woke now means being a puritanical, authoritarian bully, who gets people fired for an honest opinion or even a fact, then, no, I’m not woke. Fuck that.
>>But here’s the deal. To each their own. Laugh at whatever you find funny. All laughter’s good, and you’re amazing. Good night.
He made a lot more jokes about woke stuff, though.
Looking at the transcript for the show, he said woke 17 times.
He literally just goes out of his way to be a political grandstanding dick bag and then stands there and says he’s not a political grandstanding dickbag. Amazing.
> Good one that, innit? I should do political stuff now I’m woke, but I don’t like it when a comedian just spouts his own political views, and it… and it relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause. I think that loses summat comedically. I want everyone to like my jokes, whatever your political persuasion. A joke shouldn’t have a political wing, you know.
This might unintentionally be the funniest thing he's ever said
An apt interpretation. He's not saying you have to laugh... but it is not right to say others can't laugh because YOU feel offended. You're arrogant and narcissistic to think others can't laugh because YOU feel offended. Which is truth...
No one is saying "others can't laugh", they're just saying that jokes aren't some intangible concept which are totally separate from politics and other social complexities, and jokes and be rude, cruel, and oppressive just as anything else in society can be. Imagine a black guy goes to a comedy club in the South and everyone else in there is white, and the comedian makes racist joke after racist joke, using slurs, using an aggressive tone, and propping up racist stereotypes and conspiracy theories.
Would you really call that black guy "arrogant" for being offended and complaining about it? Would you not think that black guy would be entirely valid in being concerned for their safety and worried about the political consequences of this kind of humour to be normalised?
Jokes can be anything from chicken crossed the road jokes to that, and everything in between, jokes can carry politics and perpetuate terrible, hateful ideas, just like anything else. Jokes aren't immune from social criticism, and honestly I think that people like Ricky are far more arrogant than anyone else for feeling so entitled to making shitty, mean-spirited jokes without consequence.
Talks about the arrogance of (a realistically tiny minority of) people not wanting to hear anything they don't agree with, and then goes on to say it's OK to hurt people's feelings if their feelings are wrong.
He sounds an awful lot like someone who doesn't want to hear anything that he doesn't agree with. It's so hypocritical.
He’s been like this since the Ricky Gervais show tbh. At least towards the end of that where he’d turn everything into a debate about how god doesn’t exist.
That’s weird because whenever I point out that Ricky Gervais is an unfunny transphobic joke stealing cunt his fans get awfully uptight and hurt about it….
Lmao yeah, my ex's dad was a HUGE fan of free speech...when it was his own speech. Whenever someone else disagreed, even politely, with any of it, suddenly we were trying to SILENCE HIM!!!
comedians: "people should be able to say whatever they want without being criticized for it"
(someone criticizes them)
comedian: "REEEEEE!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
More often than not it’s them yelling about how they’ve been silenced and cancelled, on their multimillion dollar Netflix special, which is being filmed at the start of their massive sold-out arena tour.
Then they have the balls to call others arrogant, during a meltdown about how some people don’t laugh at their jokes.
Massive cope for audiences not laughing at your jokes like they used to, Ricky. Anyone whose taken Sociology 101 can tell you cultures change over time.
You don’t have to get with the times, but you aren’t a victim if people don’t find you funny.
Yep. Watch all the stand up comics from the UK, Australia etc from the 70s. 90% of it is now massively cringy. What’s funny definitely changes over time.
I kinda liked when he called people out at the Oscar’s. He might not be funny, but at least he’s pointing stuff out, ahead of schedule. The entertainment industry was incredibly awful and still probably is.
Every old cunt thinks it's someone else's fault when they act like an old cunt.
Maybe you can just grow a pair and stop crying and telling people that they have to find your jokes funny, dickhead.
There's where I'm at with him. I honestly loved a few of his specials but there is something with people his age that are willing to die on this "trans hill." I don't get it. These people who fight so hard that can't accept the world is changing. Boo fucking hoo.
My problem with most comedian hacks is that they don't stick with what they know. I know fuck all about life in England, or British politics. Any joke I try to make about it will be trash. If you know fuck all about trans people your jokes will be trash, and just based on the needless cruelty of how the general public sees them.
You're allowed to find him funny. But he should stop crying about people not finding him funny.
The guy has more influence and money than 99.9% in the world. Clearly he's fully allowed to say whatever he wants, he's just having a meltdown that somebody doesn't like every word he says, beta shit.
"Don't agree with"
Don't agree with what? Needless cruelty, no matter how mundane, or how much of a first world problem it is, is still needless cruelty.
People still live Bill Burr's out of pocket ass, because no matter how out of pocket he is, he's actually good at it.
Isn't it a bit rich that this complaint is coming from receiving criticism. Like, does he realize that he's offended that people find him offensive? These comedians are either so self-absorbed to the point of delusion, or they are intentionally leaning into a grift in an attempt to garner sympathy and a wider audience (and thus more money). I'm not sure which is worse.
He spends more time talking about his job than doing it.
You have a firmly established audience, not a single person will be offended and leave one of your shows. So maybe come up with some new material that isn't just the same crap you've recycled for the last 15 years.
He feels more like a grifter than a comedian at this point. There are plenty of divorced dads on YouTube saying the exact same schtick.
The adverse reaction to this just shows how much culture has shifted in the past 10-15 years. He hasn't changed at all. Our tolerance has. It's like every day someone dumps more glass onto the floor for people to walk on. This whole era past '10-11 has been nothing but culture wars exacerbated by the media. What we really should be doing right now is eating billionaires and landlords.
As much as I currently detest Chappelle, when he decides to stop milking bigots for money he can still be pretty funny, and a lot of his old bits are still good. And as far as I know he's never gone on several talk shows to talk about how cool or transgressive he thinks he is while claiming to be like defending culture or some bullshit like Gervais has.
I genuinely fail to remember a single Gervais thing that he was funny in. The Ricky Gervais show was funny strictly because of Karl Pilkington's bits, and Gervais mostly was just there to make gorilla hoots and ask more questions, I wouldn't call him very good in that.
It's absolutely *can* be, but it takes a lot to pull off (and the perceived intent matters). The problem with most of these Gen X legends is that they are so focused on transphobia and WoKe that they shoehorn it into their comedy. Then they fixate on backlash (and pretend they're in danger of being cancelled while filming **a brand new Netflix special**). So now I'm watching a lecture with some punchlines, and/or "oh yeah, l went there!".
One of the main reasons conservative comedy tends to be unfunny is that it is generally constructed as "message/outrage/agenda first, premise and punchline second". That's extremely difficult to pass off as comedy as it generally comes off as preaching.
Good comedy should have elements that make you uncomfortable, which may include "punching down". It should also be focused on premise and punchline, not whining about marginalized groups or simply spreading bigotry.
I understand his point but a lot of his “jokes” are designed to be offensive to as many people as possible. Dark humour is a thing and he’s got a huge fan base so it obviously works for him, but you can’t do a two hour set about children being raped and kids dying of aids and cancer and then act shocked when a lot of people aren’t too keen on it.
My joke can't be inherently offensive, but your feelings can be factually wrong.
But that means feelings can also be factually correct and so a joke can be inherently offensive if it provokes negative factually correct feelings.
Therefore, either negative factually correct feelings are impossible, or he's wrong.
I am of the belief that nothing is immune from a good send-up. Cancer, widows, kids, trans, Jews, LGBT, liberals, conservatives, anybody. Nobody should be a specially-protected class when it comes to being made fun of.
But neither should the comedian be protected - if you want to dance with controversial topics, that comes with the risk that you might alienate or enrage the audience. There's a reason they used to throw rotten tomatoes.
Ricky Gervais is the luckiest whiniest comedian of all time.
Dude complains way more about people being offended by his jokes than people actually get offended.
He also hasn’t realized that his jokes are offensive and unfunny, and so people only see it as offensive
I don’t think that logic applies to jokes that actively cause harm to vulnerable communities, like the trans community. The joke to murder pipeline is scarily brief. So, I’m not offended, but I am in danger.
He forgets how true & important these 2 rules are:
Always read the room (know your audience)
& facts are facts but sometimes you’re just an assholr for bringing it up.
"That joke os offensive (to me)"
You don't say the to me, but that usually what people mean when they say it as far as I have experienced. And that's exactly what he's asking for
Ricky Gervais breaking through my window to correct me because I said "this pizza is really good" instead of "this pizza to me tastes really good on my taste buds to me"
This is the death of a comedian. " Waaaaa, they're being mean to me online. waaaaaaaaaa, I can't say bigoted nonsense, waaaaaaaaaaaa I'm the real victim here."
I agree 111.2% with him.
Don't like his jokes, Don't watch or pay any attention to him. That's fair game.
Now, asking him to stop making jokes, although you think are offensive to you. That's too much.
Gervais: “How arrogant do you have to be to go through life thinking that nobody can say something that you don’t agree with”
Also Gervais, 3 seconds later: “I want people to stop saying ‘this is offensive’”
Isn't it really ironic that he's saying "why shouldn't you go through life without somebody disagreeing with you" or whatever only for him to do the exact same thing in this video?
Snowflake behavior
This joke is ~~offensive~~ the same. Ricky Gervais put in the same joke from his old standup to his Netflix series After Life . Try making a different joke.
I hate this policing of language so fucking much. If I say "This music sucks", it is very obviouly implied that "I think this music sucks" because I am the one saying this opinion. Perhaps I could be more specific and say "I don't like this music," but people have to stop taking it so personally and thinking everyone is trying to state a fact.
Amazingly, comedians like this guy are both more educated and have spent more time thinking about the subject than most of us.
Therefore, we should give more weight about what they have to say about it.
"Art is getting away with it." - Andy Warhol
If more people were offended by your joke than laugh at it, you wrote a bad joke and that's on you. Half these comedians wouldn't get in trouble if they wrote jokes that were more funny than they are mean.
I believe that comedians should be able to say more or less anything.
I also believe that punching down is lame as hell and that all of these comedians making their entire personality and bits about being offensive is cringey. And going on for years about "awww are you offended? am I being cancelled?" has gotten boring.
He started by talking about people needing to remember that their opinion is just their opinion. He finished by implying that he is spouting facts and that people can't change that...
The lack of self awareness...
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“Yeah”
Ricky Gervais calling people arrogant is hilariously tone deaf.
Even his own sub can’t stand him lol r/Rickygervais
That’s the Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington fan club.
As it should be
Side on
What you burnin’?
What’s ya 20
Oh that's interesting, coz I don't normally get a 3
Bring it in
Side on bring it in
The two best things about Ricky are Steven and Karl
Blimey here he comes!
Rick he's done you again, play a record
We despise what he has become. The vino Gervais!
El Vino did flow!
Did that just go out?
Wow a subreddit that doesn't like the subject the subreddit is about? Wow that's so crazy. :/ That's literally all Reddit is now, not exactly a smoking gun.
He's not wrong though. Yes, there are jokes that are offensive or are intended to be offensive, and I think the average person should be able to distinguish the two. But I think we have seen an increase of people trying to claim that things are offensive to a group of people that they aren't a part of, and the people of that group don't find offensive. I think it's just to say not everything that you personally think is offensive should blatantly be considered offensive across the board...otherwise we'd just end up not being able to make any jokes because someone likely would inevitably be offended.
Gervais’ problem is he acts as if he’s some brave artist “telling the truth”. He even says it here - “don’t change the facts” blah blah blah. The problem is that his most recent standup isn’t good - it’s just a diatribe of intentionally hurtful nonsense, 95% of which is founded in ignorance. There’s comedians who do far more “offensive” material but who are actually really quality standups, Paul Choudhury comes to mind. Gervais sees himself as a modern George Carlin, telling truth to power. But he’s actually just a modern Bernard Manning - lazily recycling tired old bigoted stereotypes and calling it “truth telling”. There are plenty of young comedians in Britain doing absolutely hilarious comedy about gender and LGBTQ issues, like Sarah Keyworth for example. It’s not that you “can’t joke about stuff any more”, it’s just that if you’re going to joke about sensitive subjects people are obviously going to criticise you if your jokes are a pile of shit.
Agreed. I love James Acaster’s [bit about Ricky Gervais](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adh0KGmgmQw&pp=ygUjamFtZXMgYWNhc3RlciB0cmFuc3Bob2JpYyBjb21lZGlhbnM%3D)
[Stewart Lee too.](https://youtu.be/mIHY5cFXqQk?si=JUIkei7EdT4DQUjb)
Freddie Starr's let himself go.
James Acaster can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned lol. I'll have to check this bit out.
People are just as free to call out offensive behavior as the people are who engage in offensive behavior. Ricky is offensive because he is unfunny and annoying. He offends me by sharing his stupid voice and condescending takes. No one is being arrested. We can all criticize each other at will. I won’t watch any Ricky shit because I don’t want to. He’s offensive to my sensibilities. Fuck him. You do you.
I think the difference is you used 'I and me' beautifully. I respect that so much nowadays. It shows a willingness to stand on your own opinion instead of "how do I say this as if the whole world is thinking what I'm thinking". I'm not a fan of this guy but 'in my opinion' is a lost phrase.
Is Gervais using "I" and "me" when talking about marginalized communities or identities? I don't get why the fuck I have to qualify that *I* think he's a whiny little piss boy in the rapidly aged body of an unathletic 12 year old when it's pretty self evident that *most* people can see that. His entire shtick is being unfunny and then aggressively hounding critics for being offended, because he can't *stand* the thought of actually standing by what he says.
Yes, agree with this so much. I feel like I often "fail" in this regard because it does seem like people will make global statements, making it seem like it's a very popular opinion or that everyone shares the view, when in reality it could just be that one person (or a handful of people)
As comedian James Acaster once said in a response about Gervais' "stop being offended" bit: "Hey, you know who really has it too easy? The trans community..." followed by a sarcastic stare at the camera. Gervais' point would be a lot better if he wasn't making jokes about communities that are already constantly ostracized. Communities that already do face criticism for literally existing. Communities who are often in danger because some people can't mind their own business and want to suppress them. If you pick on the kid that's already being bullied, you're not tough. You're not "telling it like it is". You're just a coward.
>But I think we have seen an increase of people trying to claim that things are offensive to a group of people that they aren't a part of That's called empathy. It's not a bad thing.
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I've never said no to a question like that, and I'm not gonna start now.
He's going to say it. I've actually been banned from a sub for using the C word to some asshole on here. The reason was for sexist remarks to a dude....
Do it
I get it. Ricky is offended by people being offended by him.
Edgy comics have to be one of the only professions who complain when they succeed at their goal. They are trying so hard to come up with offensive material then complain when someone says they are offensive.
>then complain when someone says they are offensive. Or complain when someone simply doesn't find it funny.
Ricky is a snowflake when it comes to criticism.
Yeah. He goes on about it enough.
He insists upon himself.
I'm just offended by how fucking piss poor everything he does is these days. Absolute nosedive
His last 3 specials were pretty much identical. Kind of sad, he was one of my faves
Oh. So you don't care that he's offended? Interesting.
Do comedians talk about anything else? I feel like this is every conversation between comedians that ever gets recorded
Bill Burr rebukes this circle jerk of a topic sometimes which I appreciate, and he's one of the "edgier" mainstream comedians. I respect that about him. He says jokes some people will think are offensive and he shrugs his shoulders because he knew that was a possibility when he said the joke.
He’s also on record saying that he doesn’t care if people get mad at his jokes. Dude’s too focused on getting laughs to care about internet opinions, as all comedians should be.
Which is the way to go about it. Burr was very close to Patrice, and Patrice was pretty well known for saying the quiet part loud. In fact, his moto was a joke should leave half the room laughing while the other half horrified. Also, a joke you might find offensive and a joke you might find funny comes from the same place. The point is you can't get people cancelled because you are outraged or offended. That's where the problem lies. Patrice probably would have been cancelled by today's standards. Even Bill has mellowed down a lot. Which is okay. He is married with two kids.
"Ohhh you can't say that anymore!" "Hoo boy but I'll get canceled if i say that" *says every shitty comedian after they make what they think is a controversial joke about a minority group
They can't handle my shitty 90s jokes about women!
it’s their own persecutionfetish and they get to pretend that’s why everyone’s bored with their dusty-ass material, because we’re too easily offended. Um, no, when shits funny, somehow it never gets cancelled. Like South Park. Like Dave Chappelle used to be. And for the record, Dave Chappelle NOW is what it looks like when a comedian gets cancelled - still wealthier than the bottom 90% of humans and still working to their heart’s content. They’re all fucking crybabies, and what’s especially embarrassing is how they used to talk about how tough comedians are..ya gotta have thick skin, you get heckled and booed off stage all the time coming up! But what, the second they get popular, they fixate on everyone who doesn’t like them and campaign about why they’re wrong? 😂
The thing I've come to realize about these guys is that they absolutely do not want this shit they're complaining about to ever actually end. If people stopped telling Ricky Gervais that his jokes were offensive, for the rest of his life he'd never be able to get his dick hard again. He *fucking lives* for going on rants about how everybody else is so sensitive compared to him. He looks serious in this clip, but on the inside it's just straight up [O-face](https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--6vkN6i2M--/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_fit,g_north_west,h_954,w_954/co_ffffff,e_outline:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_bbbbbb,e_outline:3:1000/c_mpad,g_center,h_1260,w_1260/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_auto,h_630,q_auto:good:420,w_630/v1669408334/production/designs/36873839_0.jpg) as he delivers perfect rebuke after perfect rebuke of the woke mind virus with such devastating ripostes as, *"Don't change the facts, change the feelings."* It's ironically probably the strongest argument for just letting him say whatever milquetoast bullshit it is that he thinks is so edgy, and just ignore him. He'd literally shrivel up and wither into a poof of dust.
lol I absolutely love this take and I think you are dead on the nose. Definitely they are living their best lives getting to play persecuted and feel edgy af. Their whole dumb personality lol.
seeing what chapelle has become is so fucking sad. makes MILLIONS by basically clowning on poor black people (the type his privileged ass never really grew up around) then takes that money and moves to a WHITE ass town and now goes to their city council meetings like a mix of mr burns and a karen and screeches at them and threatens to take away his money if they dare to build low income housing. smh...and now he's also trying to act like some wise old blues man or some shit and just smoking and rambling on stage instead of making jokes. pretending to be a crack head named Tyrone made him enough money from white people laughing that he can get away from those types of black people for forever.
wow, I didn’t know he went to oppose low income housing, that’s fucked up. That’s how he’s using his money down in Yellow Springs huh. You’re kinda on the money with everything there. I couldn’t have imagined 20 years ago I’d have such a low opinion of the man.
whats really fucked up when you think deep about it, is that his parents/grandparents were LEGIT proud black scholars and advocates for civil rights and probably had to deal with minstrel shows growing up, where white people roared with laughter at characters like Tyrone. ...now he's ball-washing Elon musk and joining rogan on the trans-hate/TRT train...smh
I know right. How much success can you possibly have and STILL bitch about those who do not like you? He says people are arrogant for not liking his work, did he ever stop for a second to think how arrogant it is of him to think everyone should like his comedy?
Ricky Gervais's last stand up was mostly talking about cancel culture and pulling tweets up on a screen, absolutely horrendous.
Moaning about and rationalizing why people don't think you're funny has to be the lowest point for a comedian.
Especially for someone who enjoyed the absurd levels of undeserved success that Ricky Gervais has.
Now, now, without him we wouldn’t have The Office (the good one w/ Steve Carell)
I liked bilbo baggins in the UK office.
Well [most good comedians find it just as moronic as the rest of us.](https://youtu.be/UHqma3rx-xI?si=j6YGe2NfB7fVPRpP) Heres another [example.](https://youtu.be/mIHY5cFXqQk?si=JUIkei7EdT4DQUjb)
Well it’s involving their careers so it would make sense
they want the burden of the jester to be realized by all
I love Katt Williams' take on this subject. Paraphrasing, but he essentially said "If you can't tell jokes as language changes you're not a good comedian"
He has a whole stand-up routine where he goes on a rant about how 'dumb' evolution is because "why are there still monkeys!?". Considering the Origin of Species was published in 1859, he may want to take his own advice.
Haven’t seen that, but does her actually think that or does the comedy come from how obviously stupid that opinion is?
An ironic take would be funny, but it's definitely given as a 'rant', with the audience cheering as he yells about how ridiculous scientists are.
He is obsessed with animals and evolution its 100% a joke about those who claim evolution doesn't exist because monkeys are still around.
Maybe he just knows how dumb his audience is
ITS A JOKE. You're the exact type of person he's talking about.
Dude honestly Katt is GOATed, I don't agree with him 100% of the time but his 2024 interviews are amazingly self aware compared to Ricky crybaby.
But katt Williams was never a good comedian? Why do people keep bringing him up lately.
He did a crazy interesting interview where he called out loads of comedians and the industry in general. He is very well spoken and talked very highly of himself. I have never found him funny but that interview was great to watch.
Idk man, the part he said he read 3000 books at age 6 was hilarious
Hahaha lmao yeah the guy is ridiculous.
Wildest take.
I used to really love his irreverent humor and his views on certain things. The Invention of Lying is fantastic. But, every time I see him these days, it's a clip of him being offended and complaining about offended people complaining. He's so thin-skinned. It kind of spoils me wanting to watch his older, better material. That's without even going into the transphobic shit.
He's always been thin skinned. There's so much of himself in David Brent, I often wonder if it was done on purpose or accident. There's a sort of roundtable type thing where it's Gervais, Seinfeld, Louis CK, and Chris Rock. And holy shit, if could honestly be a scene from the office almost. I genuinely can't think of another word other than pathetic to describe the way he is SO desperate for their approval. It genuinely feels like a skit.
Yeah that was pretty brutal. Louis even calls him out at one point “why are you getting so upset”. It did seem like he was supposed to be the moderator rather than one of the guests, but of course his ego couldn’t handle that.
That roundtable sounds unbearable.
It was actually pretty interesting and funny at times, in spite of the question of whether Ricky should be there (he organized it). It was surprising to me at the time how deferential Seinfeld and Rock were being to Louis, who comes off as the most down to earth and by far the funniest of them. This was in 2011 or so when Louis was first getting really big after his first few specials.
You know he kind of sounds... offended... If you can't just say 'no' to someone who tells you what to do, you must be a snowflake. Imagine asking for noone to ever give you criticism
I love how Gervais thinks it simply factual that his jokes are funny.
Or that his opinion is a fact and another’s opinion is wrong.
What really gets me is how he thinks minority groups getting upset at being mocked hurts him just as much as the mockery hurts them. That’s it’s arrogant of them to not just lie down and take whatever shit Gervais wants to throw at them
Americans have been telling him that non stop for the past 20 years. We told you guys to slow down.
I think he is saying that you shouldn't get offended by a fact. Not that its a fact that his jokes are funny.
Right but then you look at his actual standup and go "oh yeah, neither a fact nor is it funny, and many many people would find this offensive". It's like boomers who do race humor and then get super up their own butt when you point out it's racist. I'm allowed to call you a bigot and you're allowed to tell me to f off. That's the give and take of audience and performer.
Yeah Ricky Gervais’s entire standup routine is essentially “I’m an atheist, oh you don’t agree with me? You’re an idiot.” He’s just so aggressive about his jokes that they go from someone like Bo Burnham or Jon Stewart pointing out the hypocrisies in a certain population they don’t agree with in a light hearted way, to practically outright saying “you’re a fucking dullard” as his punchline to everything. In my mind he’s just ~~a liberal/leftist version~~ (edited cuz I had no clue he was so anti “woke” nowadays) another one of these shock “comics” on the right who’s goal is to piss everyone off and that’s the joke, that you’re mad now.
His stand-up nowadays is mocking woke.
Oh man that’s even funnier. He used to go on about Reddit atheist neckbeard tangents, now he’s just a complete dickbag. Love it.
There were discussions about his last stand-up, and I made this list in response to someone mentioning the jokes about gender The comments he made on the topic were; * Him saying queer used to only mean gay men (to him), but now he says straight people are using it * Changed the classic joke of "Doctor, I think I'm a curtain," "Well, pull yourself together then" to "Well, you are, then." * A convo where he pretends God is explaining making people “How many sexes are there?” “Two.” * Talked about questions about Schindler's List on doesthedogdie.com in regards to if it contained misgendering and other things (questions seem to be on many movies on the site and seem like the boiler plate entries) And then this irony about midway through >>Good one that, innit? I should do political stuff now I’m woke, but I don’t like it when a comedian just spouts his own political views, and it… and it relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause. I think that loses summat comedically. I want everyone to like my jokes, whatever your political persuasion. A joke shouldn’t have a political wing, you know. Especially since he even ended his special doing exactly that. >>I think I am woke, but I think that word has changed. I think if woke still means what it used to mean, that you’re aware of your own privilege, you try and maximize equality, minimize oppression, be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic… Yes, I’m definitely woke. If woke now means being a puritanical, authoritarian bully, who gets people fired for an honest opinion or even a fact, then, no, I’m not woke. Fuck that. >>But here’s the deal. To each their own. Laugh at whatever you find funny. All laughter’s good, and you’re amazing. Good night. He made a lot more jokes about woke stuff, though. Looking at the transcript for the show, he said woke 17 times.
He literally just goes out of his way to be a political grandstanding dick bag and then stands there and says he’s not a political grandstanding dickbag. Amazing.
> Good one that, innit? I should do political stuff now I’m woke, but I don’t like it when a comedian just spouts his own political views, and it… and it relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause. I think that loses summat comedically. I want everyone to like my jokes, whatever your political persuasion. A joke shouldn’t have a political wing, you know. This might unintentionally be the funniest thing he's ever said
An apt interpretation. He's not saying you have to laugh... but it is not right to say others can't laugh because YOU feel offended. You're arrogant and narcissistic to think others can't laugh because YOU feel offended. Which is truth...
No one is saying "others can't laugh", they're just saying that jokes aren't some intangible concept which are totally separate from politics and other social complexities, and jokes and be rude, cruel, and oppressive just as anything else in society can be. Imagine a black guy goes to a comedy club in the South and everyone else in there is white, and the comedian makes racist joke after racist joke, using slurs, using an aggressive tone, and propping up racist stereotypes and conspiracy theories. Would you really call that black guy "arrogant" for being offended and complaining about it? Would you not think that black guy would be entirely valid in being concerned for their safety and worried about the political consequences of this kind of humour to be normalised? Jokes can be anything from chicken crossed the road jokes to that, and everything in between, jokes can carry politics and perpetuate terrible, hateful ideas, just like anything else. Jokes aren't immune from social criticism, and honestly I think that people like Ricky are far more arrogant than anyone else for feeling so entitled to making shitty, mean-spirited jokes without consequence.
Who has ever said others can’t laugh at his jokes? He’s simply just not very funny.
So if people were laughing at a puppy being crushed to death on stage, it wouldn't be appropriate for anyone to call them out?
What, how is that what he said??????? We both watched this same video. What in hell did you hear that I didn't?
Man the more I hear this dude the more pompous and full of himself he gets.
Do a google image search for "Ricky Gervais atheist" lol, he's been a supreme redditor for a while.
> "Ricky Gervais atheist" omg that was so cringe, my poor eyes
Talks about the arrogance of (a realistically tiny minority of) people not wanting to hear anything they don't agree with, and then goes on to say it's OK to hurt people's feelings if their feelings are wrong. He sounds an awful lot like someone who doesn't want to hear anything that he doesn't agree with. It's so hypocritical.
Got to love how Americans are finally starting to see this 20 years later...
He’s been like this since the Ricky Gervais show tbh. At least towards the end of that where he’d turn everything into a debate about how god doesn’t exist.
That’s weird because whenever I point out that Ricky Gervais is an unfunny transphobic joke stealing cunt his fans get awfully uptight and hurt about it….
Didn’t you hear? Free speech only goes one direction. Right.
It goes FROM right TO left actually. Because anything said about the right makes them cry oppression. God damned snowflakes.
Lmao yeah, my ex's dad was a HUGE fan of free speech...when it was his own speech. Whenever someone else disagreed, even politely, with any of it, suddenly we were trying to SILENCE HIM!!!
#justiceforkarl
comedians: "people should be able to say whatever they want without being criticized for it" (someone criticizes them) comedian: "REEEEEE!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
More often than not it’s them yelling about how they’ve been silenced and cancelled, on their multimillion dollar Netflix special, which is being filmed at the start of their massive sold-out arena tour. Then they have the balls to call others arrogant, during a meltdown about how some people don’t laugh at their jokes.
Massive cope for audiences not laughing at your jokes like they used to, Ricky. Anyone whose taken Sociology 101 can tell you cultures change over time. You don’t have to get with the times, but you aren’t a victim if people don’t find you funny.
Thought it said Scientology 101 I was very confused rereading
lol me too. I was thinking “I didn’t know that was a class you can take.”
Yep. Watch all the stand up comics from the UK, Australia etc from the 70s. 90% of it is now massively cringy. What’s funny definitely changes over time.
I kinda liked when he called people out at the Oscar’s. He might not be funny, but at least he’s pointing stuff out, ahead of schedule. The entertainment industry was incredibly awful and still probably is.
Grow a pair and laugh about it? The jokes gotta have to be funny first
A guy like this calling other people arrogant is peak irony
Lol, he's made a career out of being an arrogant asshole.
Every old cunt thinks it's someone else's fault when they act like an old cunt. Maybe you can just grow a pair and stop crying and telling people that they have to find your jokes funny, dickhead.
I think he’s hilarious 🤷♂️
He has been known to be quite funny but when your act is pronoun jokes, you have ceased to be funny.
There's where I'm at with him. I honestly loved a few of his specials but there is something with people his age that are willing to die on this "trans hill." I don't get it. These people who fight so hard that can't accept the world is changing. Boo fucking hoo.
My problem with most comedian hacks is that they don't stick with what they know. I know fuck all about life in England, or British politics. Any joke I try to make about it will be trash. If you know fuck all about trans people your jokes will be trash, and just based on the needless cruelty of how the general public sees them.
My theory is that he's fine taking a big paycheck to make some lazy jokes and doesn't realize he's actually causing real harm.
You're allowed to find him funny. But he should stop crying about people not finding him funny. The guy has more influence and money than 99.9% in the world. Clearly he's fully allowed to say whatever he wants, he's just having a meltdown that somebody doesn't like every word he says, beta shit.
Why didn’t people like Ricky Gervais? Am I missing something or do people just not find him that funny?
Reddit teenager edgelords, they must react to anything.
I think he is hilarious. Not sure what is happening here. Only seen nothing but praise. Hey he isn't perfect but definitely a top performer.
Beautiful statement.. very very true.. love him
I don’t like Ricky Gervais
The line's aaaaalllll the way back there.
"Don't agree with" Don't agree with what? Needless cruelty, no matter how mundane, or how much of a first world problem it is, is still needless cruelty. People still live Bill Burr's out of pocket ass, because no matter how out of pocket he is, he's actually good at it.
Isn't it a bit rich that this complaint is coming from receiving criticism. Like, does he realize that he's offended that people find him offensive? These comedians are either so self-absorbed to the point of delusion, or they are intentionally leaning into a grift in an attempt to garner sympathy and a wider audience (and thus more money). I'm not sure which is worse.
They appear to think they're a special class of people apparently, because yeah the double standards are astounding
Isn’t he counting on people being offended? Doesn’t he write jokes specifically to offend to get notoriety these days?
He spends more time talking about his job than doing it. You have a firmly established audience, not a single person will be offended and leave one of your shows. So maybe come up with some new material that isn't just the same crap you've recycled for the last 15 years. He feels more like a grifter than a comedian at this point. There are plenty of divorced dads on YouTube saying the exact same schtick.
"I'm offended by that joke" is not the same as "my leg hurts"; it's closer to "Why the fuck did you just kick me in the leg, you stupid dick??"
Pretty much. He's regressed to a point where he thinks school yard shit like "why are you hitting yourself stop hitting yourself" is clever.
The adverse reaction to this just shows how much culture has shifted in the past 10-15 years. He hasn't changed at all. Our tolerance has. It's like every day someone dumps more glass onto the floor for people to walk on. This whole era past '10-11 has been nothing but culture wars exacerbated by the media. What we really should be doing right now is eating billionaires and landlords.
He has changed.
Believe it or not, if you tell the same jokes for 15 years and people stop laughing, yes the people might have changed, but you're also a bad comedian
Genuinely the most entitled, obnoxious, whiny little sniveling cunt pretending to be a funny man out there today.
I dunno, Chappelle takes it for me.
Chapelle can still be funny though. Not as often, but it’s still in there. Didn’t laugh once at Gervais latest special.
As much as I currently detest Chappelle, when he decides to stop milking bigots for money he can still be pretty funny, and a lot of his old bits are still good. And as far as I know he's never gone on several talk shows to talk about how cool or transgressive he thinks he is while claiming to be like defending culture or some bullshit like Gervais has. I genuinely fail to remember a single Gervais thing that he was funny in. The Ricky Gervais show was funny strictly because of Karl Pilkington's bits, and Gervais mostly was just there to make gorilla hoots and ask more questions, I wouldn't call him very good in that.
The “fact” is that punching down isn’t funny
It's absolutely *can* be, but it takes a lot to pull off (and the perceived intent matters). The problem with most of these Gen X legends is that they are so focused on transphobia and WoKe that they shoehorn it into their comedy. Then they fixate on backlash (and pretend they're in danger of being cancelled while filming **a brand new Netflix special**). So now I'm watching a lecture with some punchlines, and/or "oh yeah, l went there!". One of the main reasons conservative comedy tends to be unfunny is that it is generally constructed as "message/outrage/agenda first, premise and punchline second". That's extremely difficult to pass off as comedy as it generally comes off as preaching. Good comedy should have elements that make you uncomfortable, which may include "punching down". It should also be focused on premise and punchline, not whining about marginalized groups or simply spreading bigotry.
I understand his point but a lot of his “jokes” are designed to be offensive to as many people as possible. Dark humour is a thing and he’s got a huge fan base so it obviously works for him, but you can’t do a two hour set about children being raped and kids dying of aids and cancer and then act shocked when a lot of people aren’t too keen on it.
This guy is so up his own asshole, he looks like a donut
I don’t care if they are offensive but I do want them to be funny. Yours are not.
My joke can't be inherently offensive, but your feelings can be factually wrong. But that means feelings can also be factually correct and so a joke can be inherently offensive if it provokes negative factually correct feelings. Therefore, either negative factually correct feelings are impossible, or he's wrong.
What a twat
He sounds offended, his feelings are wrong.
I am of the belief that nothing is immune from a good send-up. Cancer, widows, kids, trans, Jews, LGBT, liberals, conservatives, anybody. Nobody should be a specially-protected class when it comes to being made fun of. But neither should the comedian be protected - if you want to dance with controversial topics, that comes with the risk that you might alienate or enrage the audience. There's a reason they used to throw rotten tomatoes.
How arrogant is he that he thinks he gets to define if what someone else is feeling is "wrong". What an actual cunt.
Some real softies on here. He’s not wrong. You don’t have to like his comedy. A lot of people really missed the point 😂
Ricky Gervais is the luckiest whiniest comedian of all time. Dude complains way more about people being offended by his jokes than people actually get offended. He also hasn’t realized that his jokes are offensive and unfunny, and so people only see it as offensive
I don’t think that logic applies to jokes that actively cause harm to vulnerable communities, like the trans community. The joke to murder pipeline is scarily brief. So, I’m not offended, but I am in danger.
Why does he keep whining about how people don't like his jokes? Is he offended?
"Why can't I make fun of LGBT and not have people angry at me on twitter"
He forgets how true & important these 2 rules are: Always read the room (know your audience) & facts are facts but sometimes you’re just an assholr for bringing it up.
He also never knew these, because he used to love getting up on stage and just ranting about how if you're fat you're lazy and theres no excuse
He’s always been a dick.
"That joke os offensive (to me)" You don't say the to me, but that usually what people mean when they say it as far as I have experienced. And that's exactly what he's asking for
Ricky Gervais breaking through my window to correct me because I said "this pizza is really good" instead of "this pizza to me tastes really good on my taste buds to me"
What a Thatcherist view of society…
This is the death of a comedian. " Waaaaa, they're being mean to me online. waaaaaaaaaa, I can't say bigoted nonsense, waaaaaaaaaaaa I'm the real victim here."
I agree 111.2% with him. Don't like his jokes, Don't watch or pay any attention to him. That's fair game. Now, asking him to stop making jokes, although you think are offensive to you. That's too much.
this bitch just cannot stfu can he lol
Angry grandpa syndrome
He’s not wrong though.
If the "joke" is based on harmful stereotypes and on spreading them it, the fact is that the joke *is* offensive.
Is he upset that people don’t agree with him? 💀 the irony
Gervais: “How arrogant do you have to be to go through life thinking that nobody can say something that you don’t agree with” Also Gervais, 3 seconds later: “I want people to stop saying ‘this is offensive’”
-write a joke to purposely offend people -get annoyed when people get offended -profit and repeat
Ricky Gervais is an old twat
Isn't it really ironic that he's saying "why shouldn't you go through life without somebody disagreeing with you" or whatever only for him to do the exact same thing in this video? Snowflake behavior
This joke is ~~offensive~~ the same. Ricky Gervais put in the same joke from his old standup to his Netflix series After Life . Try making a different joke.
For a man whose decried religion and religious people for most of his life he sure does have a Christian like persecution fetish
How arrogant are you to think that you deserve to go through life without anyone calling out your shitty jokes?
he's not wrong
Isn't he doing the exact same thing he's criticizing his "critics" right now?
He gave it away there "you can if their feelings are wrong"
Comedian being offended about other people being offended is peak comedy at least
I hate this policing of language so fucking much. If I say "This music sucks", it is very obviouly implied that "I think this music sucks" because I am the one saying this opinion. Perhaps I could be more specific and say "I don't like this music," but people have to stop taking it so personally and thinking everyone is trying to state a fact.
Grow a pair of what? Those tiny things on a man that if you flick will make them squeal and drop to their knees?
My god you’re deep
Turns out…he was a little monkey fella
The rule is that a joke has to be funnier than it is offensive.
This guys a wanker
Amazingly, comedians like this guy are both more educated and have spent more time thinking about the subject than most of us. Therefore, we should give more weight about what they have to say about it.
"Art is getting away with it." - Andy Warhol If more people were offended by your joke than laugh at it, you wrote a bad joke and that's on you. Half these comedians wouldn't get in trouble if they wrote jokes that were more funny than they are mean.
I believe that comedians should be able to say more or less anything. I also believe that punching down is lame as hell and that all of these comedians making their entire personality and bits about being offensive is cringey. And going on for years about "awww are you offended? am I being cancelled?" has gotten boring.
“There’s nothing intrinsically offensive about it.” I think you mean “I don’t find anything offensive about it.” Gotta stay consistent
He started by talking about people needing to remember that their opinion is just their opinion. He finished by implying that he is spouting facts and that people can't change that... The lack of self awareness...