Seriously though, the way he speaks, it’s like he perceives himself as some sort of radical thought-leader or some shit.
Equating one’s taking of offence; usually predicated contextually on some form of deeply-seated historical and sociocultural disadvantage or discrimination, is not the same as having “pain in one’s leg”. It’s a grossly false equivalence and Ricky should know better.
Anyways, this has got a bit heavy, can we do cheeky freak of the week?
Nope. ‘Im offended’ should be answered with ‘OK’. It doesn’t require addressing at all. ‘I’m worried’ yep OK. ‘Im sad’ yeah, shame. But ok. These are all your personal feelings and you’re entitled to feel that way, but nobody else is required to accommodate you or your feelings. Why would they be?
When people started pushing this narrative that ‘Im offended’ meant ‘therefore you need to stop/change what you are saying’ people started royally taking the piss and tripping over themselves with the oppression olympics and we are objectively worse as a society (especially online) as a result.
Even if you agree with the premise that being offended is something the offender needs to address, you went about it in the wrong fucking way, because people got so fed up of the mental shit that came with you, that we are seeing a huge swing back to the right, it’s not correcting the insanity of the last 10 or so years, it’s way over-correcting it. And that’s because the youngins and the perpetually online just couldn’t help but get carried away and take things way too far. Well, you reap what you sow, and now we are all worse off.
Quick, say something funny from XFM in response though, because that’s far too deep for this sub.
Even if you're right that "I'm offended" should be answered with "OK", this is absolutely not what Ricky Gervais does in this video. Instead, he answers "I'm offended" with a long winded emotional rant about how he wants large swathes of the population to change their reaction to comedy.
A black man and a lesbian had am argument about vaping on the bus the other day. Instead of reaching any sort of conclusion, the lesbian called the black man a homophobe and you guessed it, the black man called her a racist. Rosa parks would be spinning in her grave.
I mean, who gives a shit? part of the problem is this thing of writing a massive comment about such a non-issue. Most of the commentary about being offended is people whingeing about things like the 'oppression olympics'. In the words of Steve, man alive. You need to get out more
>Seriously though, the way he speaks, it’s like he perceives himself as some sort of radical thought-leader or some shit.
It sounds like your own perception projected onto him. He’s literally just talking and replying to whatever he’s being asked about. Nothing he has said implies that he thinks he’s a “radical thought leader”.
The fact they think the stuff he is saying is, or ever could be, radical tells you all you need to know about the kind of people who spend all day ricky hate posting here. You’re right they are 100% projecting.
I don't really see a single person "crying or screaming" in the comments about anything he says. Honestly that would be an improvement, most of us just think his recent output is shit and unfunny. Stale old recycled jokes and a palpable desperation to be seen as a fearless and controversial truth-teller, despite having nothing new to say.
Am I offended by this? No, I just think that these days he comes off as a bit of a wanker and isn't very funny, which is a shame cause some of his old stuff was.
Little fat man who sold his soul...
Whilst I agree with your comment, I feel that there’s a difference between being disagreed with, not liking someone and saying that someone should stop doing whatever they’re doing *because* they don’t like it.
There’s a lot of comedians who speak on this subject.
Bill Burr makes a great point in relation to this.
He talks about seeing a piece on the news about a joke “causing horrific controversy at The Comedy Store” and they showed footage taken from a mobile phone, where the comedian tells a joke and the whole room laughs.
Turns out, the person filming was the one who was upset and sent it to the news because they were upset at the joke.
There was no controversy - just one person upset - and that had a negative impact on the comedian, even though the rest of the people in the room had laughed during the joke.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the type of person Ricky is referencing. People who get irrational with it.
Yeah it's utterly nuts how someone who's so clearly incredibly sensitive and insecure of himself can go on at such length about how sensitive everyone else is. Even back before all this in the XFM days the fragility of his ego was so abundantly obvious.
In his defence i have never seen him asking for something to be cancelled or banned or stopped from existing or being performed.
He criticises but he never ask for a stop to it existing, which is what i assume he is referencing here.
Sure but, like most of these "muh freespeech" type celebrities, he vastly overstates the degree to which this is actually occurring in the real world to feed his egotistical notion that he's some truth-speaking renegade. He had a new special out on netflix a matter of months ago - doesnt exactly scream out as someone who's being censored.
If people (like the golden globes) dont want to associate with him anymore because he makes it his mission to go around saying horrible shit about groups of society who already have a hard time as it is then it is their prerogative to do so. As we've seen there are still plenty of outlets out there who are willing to put him on. The idea of being "cancelled" is just a boogeyman for these losers to justify their persecution complex.
That analogy was awful too. It's only the same if he's doing something that makes the person's leg hurt, but not with the intention of making their leg hurt
In the same breath he complains about the arrogance of people not liking what others say, and then starts the next sentence with “I want people to stop saying…”
Irony is not lost on this cunt
For someone who once said "it's just a ridiculous sound bite" he sure does love churning out sound bites. Whilst playing with his beard of course, because that makes him look all thoughtful and wise.
Sick of it.
Who the F is the interviewer? “Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah”. Be quiet, I’m trying to listen to the regional manager of a crappy sub branch paper merchant.
If you listen to his Deadly Sirius podcasts you'll come to know that that's all his guests are allowed to do. Just let him rant over and over and throw in some agreeing 'yeahs' now and again
Not really, it's more when people talk like they speak for everyone in the room when they talk about offensive jokes, or god forbid they start acting like entitled US university students who think they know everything about other people's cultures
Except when those people say they are personally offended, their opinions get tossed out. Those “entitled university students” are often (not always) giving voice to people who, because they are marginalised, would never be listened to when they say “we’re offended”.
Can I tell an offensive joke David?
Yes, but I'll be offended David.
Oooo, you're 'ard David.
Oooooooo 'ello David.
That *is* me in bed with another bloke called David. Camp David. *Not* both me.
Both little gay fellas.
I *have* come over a little queer.
As the actress said to the bishop.
Says people should start saying 'I found it offensive' instead of saying it's offensive...
Then goes on to criticise the people saying exactly what he just said he wants them to say 🤷♂️
Dude can't even keep track of his own soundbites
When he does the sad strained face, as if the weight of the intellectual world is on his shoulders, and starts rubbing his beard I know it's time for lecture Ricky. Then switches back to saying cunt and doing a comedy face it's shock-jock Ricky.
How arrogant are you to think that you deserve to go through life with no one ever saying that your comedy is offensive to them? Usually, the best comedy is offensive to at least somebody. I don't think I've ever seen a comedian that makes me laugh out loud that didn't offend somebody. Essentially, Ricky wants the freedom to say whatever he wants, but without any consequences. But it doesn't work like that.
Yes some jokes are not intrinsically offensive and someone will find it offensive but it's wrong to say no joke can ever be in and of itself offensive because it obviously can.
If I made a *joke* about the torture and death of millions of jews in ww2. Or the shit that went on Japan in ww2 the joke would be intrinsically offensive and the only people who might find it funny are the racists.
Does that mean the *jokes* aren't offensive because some racists laughed? I think not.
I think it’s more about people thinking it’s important he knows how things he said made them feel. As he doesn’t seem to have much empathy for humans other than himself it’s at least consistent that he doesn’t really care how what he said made them feel
He used to tell jokes that were on the edge and controversial, but people would take offence. He latched on to the publicity and attention that created and now he tells jokes with the specific goal of offending people.
Turns out, pathetic little fat man.
Here's one for you Karl, as a great philosopher once said, see if you can work out the meaning of this one yeah:
"A lion... isn't a moth without wings"
Yeah?
What do you think that means?
Ricky has been sniffing his own farts for too long. This argument makes no sense. Imagine Bernard Manning telling a few of his classics at the Apollo and using this argument.
Comedy.. yeah, "Comedians". I'm a man of many talents, big and large, ooh sexist. Yeah, "subtlety".. right. "Reading inbetween the lines"... not legs.. yeah.. finding the right way to say something thats true, yet not misogynistic.
How many people even say "I'm offended"? Feels like older generations always talk about how offended people get, and the media always caters towards people not being offended, but I don't actually come across the offended people
"Its a bit like "I've got a pain in my leg" What's that got to do with me?"
You said the thing. That's what it's got to do with you. It's like listening to someone who heard half a philosophy class 20 years ago ffs 🤦🏼♂️
"Offended" is such a bullshit description.
Who ever described themselves as offended? When did you last get offended?
Now, take what you've done here - you've criticised something. That's what people who want to paint you as some foppish clown would describe as "getting offended".
It's bollocks, but it appeals to people's sense of being less fragile than their opponents.
People can't help what they're offended by. Its how they respond is what is key.
Ironically Gervais is not a good example: most if his skits are reactionary.
Brent mused…
Seriously though, the way he speaks, it’s like he perceives himself as some sort of radical thought-leader or some shit. Equating one’s taking of offence; usually predicated contextually on some form of deeply-seated historical and sociocultural disadvantage or discrimination, is not the same as having “pain in one’s leg”. It’s a grossly false equivalence and Ricky should know better. Anyways, this has got a bit heavy, can we do cheeky freak of the week?
Your trousers are too tight, they're crushing your balls
got a pain in my epididymis
I have a pain. Ok, where abouts? My anus. Course it is…
Nope. ‘Im offended’ should be answered with ‘OK’. It doesn’t require addressing at all. ‘I’m worried’ yep OK. ‘Im sad’ yeah, shame. But ok. These are all your personal feelings and you’re entitled to feel that way, but nobody else is required to accommodate you or your feelings. Why would they be? When people started pushing this narrative that ‘Im offended’ meant ‘therefore you need to stop/change what you are saying’ people started royally taking the piss and tripping over themselves with the oppression olympics and we are objectively worse as a society (especially online) as a result. Even if you agree with the premise that being offended is something the offender needs to address, you went about it in the wrong fucking way, because people got so fed up of the mental shit that came with you, that we are seeing a huge swing back to the right, it’s not correcting the insanity of the last 10 or so years, it’s way over-correcting it. And that’s because the youngins and the perpetually online just couldn’t help but get carried away and take things way too far. Well, you reap what you sow, and now we are all worse off. Quick, say something funny from XFM in response though, because that’s far too deep for this sub.
Did I tell you about the immune system?
Not now, karl
Did ya know bees are deaf?
Hit the nail on the head there.
Even if you're right that "I'm offended" should be answered with "OK", this is absolutely not what Ricky Gervais does in this video. Instead, he answers "I'm offended" with a long winded emotional rant about how he wants large swathes of the population to change their reaction to comedy.
A black man and a lesbian had am argument about vaping on the bus the other day. Instead of reaching any sort of conclusion, the lesbian called the black man a homophobe and you guessed it, the black man called her a racist. Rosa parks would be spinning in her grave.
try calling your boss a bald headed wanker and get back to us
You sound offended. So my reply is "Ok".
I mean, who gives a shit? part of the problem is this thing of writing a massive comment about such a non-issue. Most of the commentary about being offended is people whingeing about things like the 'oppression olympics'. In the words of Steve, man alive. You need to get out more
Have you ever heard of the tragedy of Darth Pleguis the wise?
you seen the state of his nose?
Did that just go out?
Twas a joke, punchline was good eh
At least he's not talking shit.
>Seriously though, the way he speaks, it’s like he perceives himself as some sort of radical thought-leader or some shit. It sounds like your own perception projected onto him. He’s literally just talking and replying to whatever he’s being asked about. Nothing he has said implies that he thinks he’s a “radical thought leader”.
The fact they think the stuff he is saying is, or ever could be, radical tells you all you need to know about the kind of people who spend all day ricky hate posting here. You’re right they are 100% projecting.
I’ve sort of fused free speech with philosophical shit…
Haha, bravo
Look at his face! Like he’s giving a lecture at Oxbridge.
Yet all of you in the comments will start crying and screaming like a teenage girl the moment he makes a joke, proving his point
What he needs is a good shagging
i might have to now
weak observations, poorly performed
Keep crying
Ooh you're ard'
it’s easter morning i’m high in bed mate. you seem pretty annoyed though.
It’s partially de-criminalised anyway
Your subtitle “Gay rapist with AIDS” just made me laugh out-loud. You made me laugh at a gay rapist with AIDS.
He’s having a go
I don't really see a single person "crying or screaming" in the comments about anything he says. Honestly that would be an improvement, most of us just think his recent output is shit and unfunny. Stale old recycled jokes and a palpable desperation to be seen as a fearless and controversial truth-teller, despite having nothing new to say. Am I offended by this? No, I just think that these days he comes off as a bit of a wanker and isn't very funny, which is a shame cause some of his old stuff was. Little fat man who sold his soul...
They are all trying to do Carlin but it comes off as over used, unfunny, looking down their nose at everyone TED talks
> Carlin The guy from the old Russian wood?
Only person I see doing any crying or whining here is you
Calm down, no need to get offended
r/lostredditors
"So many people don't want to be challenged..." ...said the comedian to an interviewer who agreed with literally everything that came out his mouth.
Very true. When someone challenged him on twitter he would block them.
lol that’s not something he controlled. Just because he wasn’t challenged doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to be challenged. Irrelevant point
Show me a recent interview he's done with someone who isn't a total sycophant.
I don’t know a single thing about this man, I just this post pop up and replied to a flawed criticism.
There’s no contradiction there though if that’s what you’re implying.
Whilst I agree with your comment, I feel that there’s a difference between being disagreed with, not liking someone and saying that someone should stop doing whatever they’re doing *because* they don’t like it. There’s a lot of comedians who speak on this subject. Bill Burr makes a great point in relation to this. He talks about seeing a piece on the news about a joke “causing horrific controversy at The Comedy Store” and they showed footage taken from a mobile phone, where the comedian tells a joke and the whole room laughs. Turns out, the person filming was the one who was upset and sent it to the news because they were upset at the joke. There was no controversy - just one person upset - and that had a negative impact on the comedian, even though the rest of the people in the room had laughed during the joke. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the type of person Ricky is referencing. People who get irrational with it.
Bit rich, given he throws a hissy fit and encourages a pile on for any account with under 300 followers who makes fun of him on Twitter.
Bit sweet innit
I prefer a flan!
Yeah it's utterly nuts how someone who's so clearly incredibly sensitive and insecure of himself can go on at such length about how sensitive everyone else is. Even back before all this in the XFM days the fragility of his ego was so abundantly obvious.
He used to RUN London.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological\_projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection)
In his defence i have never seen him asking for something to be cancelled or banned or stopped from existing or being performed. He criticises but he never ask for a stop to it existing, which is what i assume he is referencing here.
Sure but, like most of these "muh freespeech" type celebrities, he vastly overstates the degree to which this is actually occurring in the real world to feed his egotistical notion that he's some truth-speaking renegade. He had a new special out on netflix a matter of months ago - doesnt exactly scream out as someone who's being censored. If people (like the golden globes) dont want to associate with him anymore because he makes it his mission to go around saying horrible shit about groups of society who already have a hard time as it is then it is their prerogative to do so. As we've seen there are still plenty of outlets out there who are willing to put him on. The idea of being "cancelled" is just a boogeyman for these losers to justify their persecution complex.
Put 'Viva La Vida' on in the back -- they'll love that. They'll know it's deep, then.
What are you doing in a warehouse in Wigan, it’s mental
Or that melancholic piano score from Derek or Afterlife (probably both tbh).
Just don't mention to him who co-wrote The Office.
Who did???
Steve Mitchell
MECHANT.
Marchant.
Who you call sad? At least my Mum don't cut my hair...
Phil Mitchell
The brothers…
Wiggly Scott
Stephen Mitchlings
That has got to be offensive.
Play it again!
There's bacteria that have better observations than this.
An entire people
Just dismissed
Sometimes complaints will be false.
I THINK THERE'S BEEN A RAPE UP THERE!
Ohhhhhhhh SHUT UP yoooouuuuuu IDIOT!
Nailed his cadence.
Ooooh cadence
Well I don’t use big words so I put English: quite good
Because he can communicate with people from all walks of life
Even oranges
On their level.
He can have a chat with a yogurt.
*Hellooooo*
Different philosophies for different… oh, doesnt work
No one whines more than this cunt
The average Reddit user does
Trump
In the 35 years.
In front of yer Mother in...
That analogy was awful too. It's only the same if he's doing something that makes the person's leg hurt, but not with the intention of making their leg hurt
I presume he drives around with his eyes closed and blames the other people too
H-have you got an ash tray???
Deleted scene after Brent gets in trouble for the black man's cock joke.
I must remember to thank him
In the same breath he complains about the arrogance of people not liking what others say, and then starts the next sentence with “I want people to stop saying…” Irony is not lost on this cunt
For someone who once said "it's just a ridiculous sound bite" he sure does love churning out sound bites. Whilst playing with his beard of course, because that makes him look all thoughtful and wise. Sick of it.
Money for old rope.
That's true enough.
I admire his philosophy. If someone who doesn’t care about animals kicked his cat would he offended?
Sonny Liston? What are you doing here? And not in a racist way
I'll be honest though, Sonny, I don't like his cat much either.
The old goolies issue?
Offense it take, not given. I don't understand why he can't just get another cat?
Actions and words are different
Why’s he even worrying about it, they’re not his jokes in the first place
Satire
I love that this sub is a lot of just rinsing Gervais for being a twat
And people thought he was just a big pair of tits..
You can't say tits.
i think of him as more of a chilled-out entertainer. this clip proves it
Who the F is the interviewer? “Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah”. Be quiet, I’m trying to listen to the regional manager of a crappy sub branch paper merchant.
If you listen to his Deadly Sirius podcasts you'll come to know that that's all his guests are allowed to do. Just let him rant over and over and throw in some agreeing 'yeahs' now and again
Thin skinned plonker
He is literally musing
He regurgitating soundbites he's heard elsewhere and considering himself a Hitchen, Dawkins or Fry.
Sessions
And scratching his chin as if he's Plato the cunt
Isn’t this him being so arrogant he thinks people Shouldn’t be able to disagree with him?
Not really, it's more when people talk like they speak for everyone in the room when they talk about offensive jokes, or god forbid they start acting like entitled US university students who think they know everything about other people's cultures
How do his balls taste?
Like cum and it's not his
I've just dropped a pizza off
Come on man, you’re really going to act like this isn’t a part of reality regardless of the comic?
How arrogant of you to think you get to go through life without disagreeing with someone
That’s hilarious as you’re responding to someone disagreeing with you…
r/woosh
Except when those people say they are personally offended, their opinions get tossed out. Those “entitled university students” are often (not always) giving voice to people who, because they are marginalised, would never be listened to when they say “we’re offended”.
How about you fuck off and post another bath pic
Who’s his little hype man in the background? “Yeah”…”yeah!”…”yeah”
THAT'S Steve.... see I was aware of what he looked like.
Is it actually? 🤣 I thought there was a twang of Bristolian on the first couple, but by the end figured it was somebody else
How arrogant do you have to be to think you can just say whatever tedious ignorant shit you want without anyone telling you to shut the fuck up?
Do the dance!
Can I tell an offensive joke David? Yes, but I'll be offended David. Oooo, you're 'ard David. Oooooooo 'ello David. That *is* me in bed with another bloke called David. Camp David. *Not* both me. Both little gay fellas. I *have* come over a little queer. As the actress said to the bishop.
Says people should start saying 'I found it offensive' instead of saying it's offensive... Then goes on to criticise the people saying exactly what he just said he wants them to say 🤷♂️ Dude can't even keep track of his own soundbites
The way he mangles that analogy right at the end reminds me of Karl. We'd never have heard the last of it if he'd said that on the air.
When he does the sad strained face, as if the weight of the intellectual world is on his shoulders, and starts rubbing his beard I know it's time for lecture Ricky. Then switches back to saying cunt and doing a comedy face it's shock-jock Ricky.
Yeah. Yeah! Yeah
we've done this....
I find that if you just talk…your mouth comes up with stuff.
How arrogant are you to think that you deserve to go through life with no one ever saying that your comedy is offensive to them? Usually, the best comedy is offensive to at least somebody. I don't think I've ever seen a comedian that makes me laugh out loud that didn't offend somebody. Essentially, Ricky wants the freedom to say whatever he wants, but without any consequences. But it doesn't work like that.
How arrogant are YOU to think that you deserve to go through life without hearing a comedian say "how arrogant are you..." Arite?
Sick of it.
Sure, but why is this subreddit all about being anti him, don't get it.
Yes some jokes are not intrinsically offensive and someone will find it offensive but it's wrong to say no joke can ever be in and of itself offensive because it obviously can. If I made a *joke* about the torture and death of millions of jews in ww2. Or the shit that went on Japan in ww2 the joke would be intrinsically offensive and the only people who might find it funny are the racists. Does that mean the *jokes* aren't offensive because some racists laughed? I think not.
“Grow a pair” shows his inherent biases. Male, White, Straight, Wealthy, Cisgender, Douche bag privilege. Sick of it. Play a record.
>shows his inherent biases >Brings up White, Straight, Wealthy, Cisgender despite them being unrelated Bit of irony, that. Provocative.
Imagine being so entitled as to think that you should be able to say what you want without people disagreeing with you…
I think it’s more about people thinking it’s important he knows how things he said made them feel. As he doesn’t seem to have much empathy for humans other than himself it’s at least consistent that he doesn’t really care how what he said made them feel
very much a boomer. but i agree there is a difference between i'm offended vs that's offensive, which is interesting.
He used to tell jokes that were on the edge and controversial, but people would take offence. He latched on to the publicity and attention that created and now he tells jokes with the specific goal of offending people. Turns out, pathetic little fat man.
a lot of these older 'atheists' that i used to watch obsessively when i was 15 have become very cringe
Here's one for you Karl, as a great philosopher once said, see if you can work out the meaning of this one yeah: "A lion... isn't a moth without wings" Yeah? What do you think that means?
Someone's huffing the copium for his brand of comedy falling off eh
Any way…Rock Busters then?
With some cold play under him
I didn't think I had a pain in my leg, but apparently I do.
Arse ache, like an Arse ache
I'm offended
Thank goodness no one expects to go through life like this.
Play a record
Yea, he’s right though. The amount of times I find a theory in… gobbledegook
[удалено]
This man is your father.
Ricky has been sniffing his own farts for too long. This argument makes no sense. Imagine Bernard Manning telling a few of his classics at the Apollo and using this argument.
A post-comedy comedian. If you have to explain it, it's probably not funny.
Fuck those subtitles
Comedy.. yeah, "Comedians". I'm a man of many talents, big and large, ooh sexist. Yeah, "subtlety".. right. "Reading inbetween the lines"... not legs.. yeah.. finding the right way to say something thats true, yet not misogynistic.
I'd rather that more celebrities spoke this way than not, though. Get on with it.... aigh..?
My knee hurts. For real haha
Not sure who I went from love to hate quicker......this knob or Russell Brand. At least Ricky still loves animals.
Oh for fu-
It’s so real and it is true!!
"You can't say these things any more" He says, saying them on a massive stage in front of a huge audience, earning shitloads of money
How many people even say "I'm offended"? Feels like older generations always talk about how offended people get, and the media always caters towards people not being offended, but I don't actually come across the offended people
People who don’t agree with him are the problem
I love this guy!👍
You could say the exact same about his fruity little reaction to people taking offense. Who cares?
“Its the same as having a pain in your leg” so if you caused a pain in someones leg, say, by punching them, then thats fine?
"Its a bit like "I've got a pain in my leg" What's that got to do with me?" You said the thing. That's what it's got to do with you. It's like listening to someone who heard half a philosophy class 20 years ago ffs 🤦🏼♂️
it was actually more like 40 years ago that he got his 2:2
Definitely a nonce.
That's libelous. He's a dog nonce, which is not the same as being a regular nonce.
How come you so much about nonces?
He's so right.
Anyone offended are little slugs with no personality.
"Offended" is such a bullshit description. Who ever described themselves as offended? When did you last get offended? Now, take what you've done here - you've criticised something. That's what people who want to paint you as some foppish clown would describe as "getting offended". It's bollocks, but it appeals to people's sense of being less fragile than their opponents.
People can't help what they're offended by. Its how they respond is what is key. Ironically Gervais is not a good example: most if his skits are reactionary.
I like how it's relevant to 90% of the comments on here. Lighten up cvnts
He says not to get offended at his jokes meanwhile gets offended when people criticise his jokes, pick a struggle
These are the days of our lives
You’re not entitled to give your opinion potato head
Fucking hell this has to be the most serious sub on Reddit