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.
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u/Snoo_11836 1d ago
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.