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Anyone seen Ricky Gervais latest tweet?

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Verify2Terrify · 10/11/2018 18:09

https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1061277856511213569?s=21

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boatyardblues · 11/11/2018 08:33

The League of Gentlemen are definitely “off message” going on both their recent TV special (scene with Babs Cabs) and their live show, which pulled no punches on the whole identity politics/unicorn/snowfake thing.

HandsOffMyRights · 11/11/2018 08:25

I hope he soesn't back track like the Bunce tweet.
He did another tweet before Bunce, but can't recall what it was. And then there's his live show and all the stuff with Kaitlin Jenner.

Comedians do generally get this (apart from the one on Politics Live recently).

Python would get this, betting French and Saunders do and a host of others.

Good for him. It exposes the absurdity of it all.

NopeNi · 11/11/2018 07:58

One of his replies - "The joke is about 3 people with testicles beating up a kid. Nothing to do with transphobia. You don’t find it funny. I’m cool with that."

Doesn't call them women there - I don't think he buys the bullshit of "yes, every man who says he is a woman definitely is one" at all.

I'm surprised the TRA movement haven't attacked en-masse yet (remember Alison Moyet?)

Deliriumoftheendless · 11/11/2018 07:36

There’s a comment there that states “when did you last get beaten up for who you love?”

What are those DV figures again?

theOtherPamAyres · 11/11/2018 00:11

I nearly wet myself when I read one reply:
I once got my ass handed to me by a bunch of drag queens because basically I don't know to this day whether they were all drag queens or some of them were women and some of them were men in dresses, but basically I was in the middle of a twirling mass of press on nails

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NottonightJosepheen · 10/11/2018 21:28

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BeyondVicious · 10/11/2018 21:24

Are you assuming the tweet is insincere? 😂😂😂

Unicyclethief · 10/11/2018 21:17

Well, he clearly believes that women cannot have penises.

BeyondVicious · 10/11/2018 21:14

Lotsa Gin But-not Tonic, Quinine Is Abhorrent

zzzzz · 10/11/2018 21:03

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AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 21:03

Luke Cage.

AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 21:03

He’s like the e Cage of comedy.

AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 21:02

He’s bulletproof.

cockBlocker · 10/11/2018 21:01

Hats off to Ricky for putting himself in the firing line.

Bowlofbabelfish · 10/11/2018 20:58

Juniperophobes the lot of you Grin

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AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 20:48

I think the Q stands for ‘quinine’.

I have trouble keeping up with the alphabetti spaghetti.

BeyondVicious · 10/11/2018 20:45

“LGBT” missed out on a trick there Grin

AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 20:43

G&T is all about the T these days.

BeyondVicious · 10/11/2018 20:02

Tonic water is probably transphobic in some way, shape or form, bowl...

Bowlofbabelfish · 10/11/2018 19:59

Murder. Not mixer.

I have no data on use of tonic water.

Bowlofbabelfish · 10/11/2018 19:59

Bollockettes maybe?

And again in the comments with the mixer and suicide rates. Someone needs to point out the real data every time.

AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 19:16

Bring on the drama, that should be.

AspieAndProud · 10/11/2018 19:14

Comedians get it because they are attuned to absurdity.

Dramatists don’t because they are all about the drama - and trans being on the drama in buckets.

That’s why Gervaise and Linehan get it and Tony Marchant and Jimmy McGovern don’t.

Tanith · 10/11/2018 18:53

I think it's that he wants to make you laugh at the untouchable - political points and all! Grin

I grew up on the same estate as RG. That "nothing is sacrosanct" attitude was typical there and it didn't cause offence (it'd be all the funnier if it did).

And, as Datun says, RG is very good at what he does!

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