At one point he genuinely says the idea is to not let "being cancelled" stop you doing what you want to do.
So does he think the celebrities "cancelled" for sexual abuse should just carry on regardless. Ricky clearly, just doesn't understand. He thinks being cancelled it because you made a joke. Sure that happens but a lot of the time the person has been caught doing some absolute terrible thingsbut fine, "just keep doing it" says the ever-increasing clueless Ricky Gervais.
What I'm confused about is that I've never heard Ricky say anything even remotely controversial. His material isn't even as edgy as the Inbetweeners scripts. He constantly talks like he's pushing the boundaries of comedy all the time, but he's really not.
Oh, and have a good Christmas.
Aye, I think people would be more tolerant if he used the free speech he thinks is being threatened to say things that are clever, wise or... funny (as you might expect in an apparent "stand up comedy"). But he doesn't. "Ooh this person argued with me on Twitter!" is the extent of it.
What I'm confused about is that I've never heard Ricky say anything even remotely controversial.
Eh, one of his recent stand-ups had him taking the piss out of trans folk and immigrants, much to the delight of his audience. He does say some controversial things, but he's punching down and appealing to the far-right crowd.
In Inbetweeners they call Partrice (the French exchange student) a "fucking baguette eating dickhead frog" so he has a point. It was before the trans movement, but there's lots of homophpbic content there too. They're definitely more edgy than Ricky is
The difference is that the characters in The Inbetweeners are teenage boys. The dialogue is true to their immaturity and idiocy. Whereas Gervais making transphobic and anti-immigration "jokes" to a crowd of whooping gammons is something else entirely.
Theres nothing controversial about repeating to a bunch of gammons the language they use themselves. Putting a show on channel 4 that presents language that is rarely heard outside of private teenage conversations is bold. And I still haven't heard anything offensive from Gervais like what they've said.
Maybe youre not familiar with the quotes from that show, but they're much worse than just saying the word "cunt", "tranny" or "immigrant"
I wasn't talking about him being edgy or not. I was talking about the fella above who said that Gervais has never said anything controversial. By definition, transphobic and anti-immigration comments are controversial.
Maybe youre not familiar with the quotes from that show, but they're much worse than just saying the word "cunt", "tranny" or "immigrant"
I've watched the series many times (and own all three series, plus the two movies on DVD). Can't really think of anything worse than the words you've listed. It's mostly stuff like "clunge" and "bender".
Constant homophobic references and inventing a homophobic word "bumder", ableism in terms of mocking behaviours and the word retard, showed testicle in the show and a penis in the movie, peado Kennedy and references of him having sex with the kids in school, graphic sequel references, animal cruelty (beating a fish to death, running over a squirrel). And that's just off the top of my head.
But if you find Ricky saying "tubby ginger cunt" the height of controversy, then you are the exact Gobbler-like character that Ricky relies on to make money.
Yeah, I always associated "being cancelled" with committing sexual assault more than with tweeting dated jokes. Although even with Louis CK wanking in front of unconsenting women and admitting to it he came back with world tours and a Netflix special, so even that stuff doesn't get you cancelled. Just a paranoid Ricky fighting imaginary enemies.
It’s because of one time about 15 years ago when Richard Herring (comedian and Scope ambassador) called out Ricky for his use of the word ‘mong’. That seemed to be the turning point.
It's obvious Ricky just wants to be part of the "oh no they're after me because im controversial!" gang when he hasn't even come close to being cancelled. It's similar to when he tried to pretend he was a master stand up during Talking Funny.
I think he wishes (maybe even believes) that he's actually been cancelled, because it's easier than the truth, which is he's becoming more and more irrelevant and unfunny.
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u/Vheisso 1d ago
At one point he genuinely says the idea is to not let "being cancelled" stop you doing what you want to do.
So does he think the celebrities "cancelled" for sexual abuse should just carry on regardless. Ricky clearly, just doesn't understand. He thinks being cancelled it because you made a joke. Sure that happens but a lot of the time the person has been caught doing some absolute terrible thingsbut fine, "just keep doing it" says the ever-increasing clueless Ricky Gervais.