Ricky Gervais Goes Anti-Woke

[Cuellar]

Didn't he make some crack at one of his highly paid hosting gigs about how if 'ISIS started a streaming service, all you lot [in the audience] would be frantically calling your agents' - as if you fucking wouldn't Gervais. He's pure Netflix fodder these days.

[TommyTurnips]

Doubt he's even aware of it. When pushing After Life 2 the dickhead genuinely said he hadn't watched comedy for the past two years, and that After Life was inspired and influenced by his love for Scandi-Noir.

"I'm Ricky Gervais. I got so good at comedy with my award winning Life's Too Short and my award winning Derek that I didn't have to survey the market beforehand in order to make my award winning Afterlife a smash hit".

[Brundle-Fly]

I thought it was a bit rich Gervais doing his anti-actor rant at the Golden Globes last year,

"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world."

What are you doing now then, Ricky? Anyway, he was brought up in the suburbs of Reading, it's hardly Detroit.

[Cuellar]

No one who wrote After Life can claim to have any attachment to the 'real world' whatsoever.

[Blue Jam]

No one who wrote After Life can claim to have attended a real yoga class, certainly.

I thought it was a bit rich Gervais doing his anti-actor rant at the Golden Globes last year,

"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world."

What are you doing now then, Ricky? Anyway, he was brought up in the suburbs of Reading, it's hardly Detroit.

...and by his own admission (in Humanity) he is now a "Hampstead cunt".

I thought his Golden Globes speech contained some of his better recent material but that line about "the real world" got my hackles up a bit. I never like hearing anyone trying to lecture people about "the real world". Hated it when I heard it as an undergraduate student, hate it even more when it comes from wealthy celebrities.

[Brundle-Fly]

...and by his own admission (in Humanity) he is now a "Hampstead cunt".

I thought his Golden Globes speech contained some of his better recent material but that line about "the real world" got my hackles up a bit.

I agree. I do laugh at some of his one liners and barbs but he's part of that elite whether he likes or not. It's like when the Gallagher brothers used to call out Blur simply because they were middle-class softies when the Oasis boys' lifestyles and families couldn't be more middle class over the past twenty-five years.

[phes]

really thought thread title was implying he was in grave

[BritishHobo]

His rants are just fodder for cunts to justify not caring about minorities. It's like when you see a rich, right-wing columnist sneer about 'champagne socialism' - as if the only problem with being a greedy rich celebrity comes when you try to give back. Or, here, when you try to use your platform to speak out against injustice.

[Poison To The Mind]

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is another good counter-example. It's had a few episodes removed from Netflix but it's also had a 15th season commissioned so I'd say it's pretty far from being #CANCELLED.

It's had FOUR MORE SEASONS commissioned. And for everything aggressively non-PC in it, all that Hulu could bother to pull from streaming were a few eps that said "blackface is done by idiots."*

I'd ask if Gervais had seen BoJack Horseman but then I remembered he's in BoJack Horseman.

Bet he bloody hasn't though.



*(At the time this happened, police in the city I'm posting from had been rioting against George Floyd protestors every night for a week or two, and were teargassing us every other day. A friend - hold on, a Black woman friend (checkMATE) - who lives two blocks from an intersection that the National Guard blockaded for a month to stop people sneaking up on the cops or something, and who rewatches IASIP on the reg, and had not left her flat since the riots started, txted me "did you see the blackface episode of Always Sunny was cancelled?" When I replied that I had, she said "I just want them to stop killing us.")

[evilcommiedictator]

Nothing more edgy and contrarian than hosting The Golden Globes

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I've watched a lot of Mr. Show over lockdown.

I bet you have, you dirty old bollocks, I bet you fucking have.

[Image] Him Who Plays Saul Goodman with a head of comparatively lustrous hair, looking all sultry and not that much like Simon Day ( or a slightly younger Paul Gambaccini , now I come to think of it).[Image]

[Blue Jam]

Paul Gambaccini? Fuck off ;)

It's like when the Gallagher brothers used to call out Blur simply because they were middle-class softies when the Oasis boys' lifestyles and families couldn't be more middle class over the past twenty-five years.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Gallaghers and Ricky Gervais had been neighbours at one point. Think they've all been in that "Hampstead Cunts" set.

It's had FOUR MORE SEASONS commissioned.

Thank you, I did not know this *yippee*

At the time this happened, police in the city I'm posting from had been rioting against George Floyd protestors every night for a week or two, and were teargassing us every other day. A friend - hold on, a Black woman friend (checkMATE) - who lives two blocks from an intersection that the National Guard blockaded for a month to stop people sneaking up on the cops or something, and who rewatches IASIP on the reg, and had not left her flat since the riots started, txted me "did you see the blackface episode of Always Sunny was cancelled?" When I replied that I had, she said "I just want them to stop killing us.")

The Real World, Ricky.

[ajsmith2]

On a related note, apparently Mogwai tweeted this @Gervais the other day, then deleted it after blowback from their own fandom (mainly because of how pathetic and needy it appeared more than any collective distaste for Gervais, although there was prob a bit of the latter in there too from some)

My main takeaway from this is the depressing reality of today that personalities of Gervais's nature  have infinitely more relevance and sway over pop culture currency than once 'cutting edge' musicians of a comparable vintage.

[chveik]

kin hell that's bleak

[Blue Jam]

They should put out an "After Life: is shite" t-shirt.

Mogwai? Fucking hell. I'd have expected better from them.

[Ferris]

Shit, Mogwai is what I put on when I want to feel outré. They've had a #1 record and are tweeting at Ricky fucking gervais?

Records in the bin, forthwith.

[Blue Jam]

Yes, the most surprising thing for me was also that Mogwai have had a number one album.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I hope they all die young.

[phantom_power]

Come on!

[rue the polywhirl]

Blur better than Mogwai after all.

[Kermit the Frog]

All this woke/anti-woke manufactured bullshit is so tiring, very little surprise that a pseud like Gervais would have this 'debate' in the forefront of his mind

[jobotic]

If I was on Twitter I would point out that both Mogwai and Gervais had great early works then got a into a cycle of diminishing returns until they both became very dull (but richer).

And they would both cry and block me and I'd win.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

[Jockice]

I was on a Zoom call this morning with people on average less than half my age (nothing sordid I can assure you though. ;t's part of an MA course I'm involved in) The talk turned to comedy and four of them mentioned Ricky Gervais. The only others mentioned were Michael McIntyre and Lee Evans. Not one of them had heard of Jerry Sadowitz.

Is this what the kids are into nowadays? I'm confused.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I was on a Zoom call this morning with people on average less than half my age (nothing sordid I can assure you though. ;t's part of an MA course I'm involved in) The talk turned to comedy and four of them mentioned Ricky Gervais. The only others mentioned were Michael McIntyre and Lee Evans. Not one of them had heard of Jerry Sadowitz.

Is this what the kids are into nowadays? I'm confused.

"Kids"!?  They'd be in their twenties, yeah?

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

I was on a Zoom call this morning with people on average less than half my age (nothing sordid I can assure you though. ;t's part of an MA course I'm involved in) The talk turned to comedy and four of them mentioned Ricky Gervais. The only others mentioned were Michael McIntyre and Lee Evans. Not one of them had heard of Jerry Sadowitz.

Lee Evans? Has he been in anything recently?

'Yeah man he's Normy Wiz on Yellow Dimples.'

[Jockice]

"Kids"!?  They'd be in their twenties, yeah?

Yip. But when you get to my age anyone under 35 is a kid.

[Ferris]

I was on a Zoom call this morning with people on average less than half my age (nothing sordid I can assure you though. ;t's part of an MA course I'm involved in) The talk turned to comedy and four of them mentioned Ricky Gervais. The only others mentioned were Michael McIntyre and Lee Evans. Not one of them had heard of Jerry Sadowitz.

Is this what the kids are into nowadays? I'm confused.

I had an intern who had heard of Gil Scott-Heron[nb]albeit via her dad[/nb] (he's great!) but also did that guilty "look both ways then behind you like you're going to say something not for public consumption" thing when asking if I heard of Ricky Gervais (you should check him out, he'll say anything!) and she'd have been early 20s at the time.

I don't know if it's generational or what, my friends my age (30s) think he's shit (except, bafflingly for one who I only got chatting to after discovering a mutual enjoyment of Brass Eye, Partridge and Vic & Bob - I suppose everyone has their blind spots).

Awful post, sorry.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Yip. But when you get to my age anyone under 35 is a kid.

To be fair, I know that feeling.

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

Amazing work