Whenever Ricky Gervais drops a special on Netflix, controversy is expected, due to what the comedian describes as his freely expressed thoughts.
His views often did not go down well with his fellow comedians. For example, Nish Kumar, a comic character on his 2019 show, berated him for “putting them down.”
“F*** Ricky Gervais. F*** Ricky Gervais. What he does isn’t edgy or interesting… he’s like any other rich, white comedian who gets too successful, runs out of ideas and decides to hit on the newest minority group,” he said in his stand-up special.
Ricky, in turn, discusses these attacks on his latest streamer, titled Mortality. It was recorded at the London Palladium earlier this year.
In a carefree manner, the After life The creator replies: “They have always failed. I’m too old now not to say what I want. I always want to say and do what I want. I always want to do my favorite thing.”
But fellow comics weren’t the only targets of Ricky’s witty jokes. Social media is one of them.
He criticizes what he describes as people who police comedy in the digital world, which he says is known as “cancel culture.”
“With the advent of social media, people suddenly discovered they could just say they were virtuous. No evidence, no evidence, just lots of flags in their bios,” he says.
“And they would raise their status by putting other people down, singling out other people… And that’s where the term virtue signaling comes from, right?”
“The most annoying thing about virtue signaling is that people are complacent about the morals of the day. You are who you are because of where you are and when you are,” he notes.
It’s worth noting that Ricky’s Mortality is number one on the Netflix charts.
