Page 14 | Cue outrage: Gervais' new Netflix special just dropped.

mirax · 2022-05-24T09:44:05+00:00

Supernature is taking absolutely, absolutely no prisoners. I am 7 minutes in with a mojito in hand.

bellinisurge · 24/05/2022 11:57

"He isn't mocking TW for having a male body he is mocking the absolute dogma that this male body is a woman."
Exactly this @fruitbrewhaha . Perhaps if we hadn't cosseted this absurd position that TWAW into some sort of religion, people wouldn't be treating it like it was sacrilege.

bellinisurge · 24/05/2022 11:53

I'm not a massive Ricky Gervais fan. And I do find some of his stuff cringe or offensive. Stuff that other people like. So I shrug it off and tune it out. And then there are other bits I like.

His turn about the new Women with beards and cocks was fucking hilarious. And watching people react to it is going to be fun.

Mandodari · 24/05/2022 11:52

puffyisgood · 24/05/2022 11:28

I think the first gag, calling natal women boring/dinosaurs etc is the best part, because it's something that isn't being explicitly highlighted all that often, and the principal butt of the joke is your hyper-woke Owen Jones type.

It gets less funny once he starts punching down, mocking the male physiques of TW [which, of course, they're all too aware of], and then right at the end gets IMO quite unfunny and probably irresponsible when he repeatedly equates TW in toilets with rape.

probably irresponsible when he repeatedly equates TW in toilets with rape.’

Does he? I heard it as mocking the fact that if a woman says she fears for her safety in a mixed sex toilet, rather than address the justifiable root of her fear, she is shouted down for using the wrong pronoun and is called a terf. We know that there have been cases of women being attacked by those saying they are trans yet every time women say opening women's space to some men who believe they are women means opening them to all men, they are decried for their transphobia.

roadsweep · 24/05/2022 11:51

puffyisgood · 24/05/2022 11:28

I think the first gag, calling natal women boring/dinosaurs etc is the best part, because it's something that isn't being explicitly highlighted all that often, and the principal butt of the joke is your hyper-woke Owen Jones type.

It gets less funny once he starts punching down, mocking the male physiques of TW [which, of course, they're all too aware of], and then right at the end gets IMO quite unfunny and probably irresponsible when he repeatedly equates TW in toilets with rape.

Unfunny to you.

roadsweep · 24/05/2022 11:50

It's sooooo good

CaveMum · 24/05/2022 11:49

He knows. He’s acknowledging all the right people.

Cue outrage: Gervais' new Netflix special just dropped.

zanahoria · 24/05/2022 11:45

He is clearly knocking the ideology that underpins self id.

He should be perfectly at liberty to do so

fruitbrewhaha · 24/05/2022 11:38

He isn't mocking TW for having a male body he is mocking the absolute dogma that this male body is a woman.

beastlyslumber · 24/05/2022 11:38

Ooh great, I'm excited to watch this! Love Ricky Gervais' comedy.

I think a lot of heads will be exploding today. I don't think Gervais gives a fuck. I wonder whether they also target his wife (who is also a writer - but I don't think she writes about the same subjects).

StarDolphins · 24/05/2022 11:36

I LOVE RIcky Gervais, I am never, ever offended by anything he says, or by any other person that I find funny.

if I could marry Ricky, I would, for many reasons💙

ZaraSizeMedium · 24/05/2022 11:35

DS has a day off today and got up at 9am specifically to watch it. He called me in on my morning break to rewind and watch the first 5 minutes.

Bloody brilliant.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/05/2022 11:33

Saving for Friday when it isn't a school night. Hope it doesn't get pulled!

tabbycatstripy · 24/05/2022 11:31

‘It gets less funny once he starts punching down, mocking the male physiques of TW [which, of course, they're all too aware of], and then right at the end gets IMO quite unfunny and probably irresponsible when he repeatedly equates TW in toilets with rape.’

He is not mocking people who are all too aware. He is mocking people who are aggressively insisting on other people’s agreement with things that are blatantly false, then abusing them when they will not.

puffyisgood · 24/05/2022 11:28

I think the first gag, calling natal women boring/dinosaurs etc is the best part, because it's something that isn't being explicitly highlighted all that often, and the principal butt of the joke is your hyper-woke Owen Jones type.

It gets less funny once he starts punching down, mocking the male physiques of TW [which, of course, they're all too aware of], and then right at the end gets IMO quite unfunny and probably irresponsible when he repeatedly equates TW in toilets with rape.

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mirax · 24/05/2022 11:24

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 24/05/2022 11:04

Omg adding this to my list. I just rewatched the last one on Netflix. He explains the difference between being the target of a joke and the subject. I think hes clever and I appreciate that.

Oh, he "educates" the audience first about irony and the nature of a joke before letting it rip. I paused to go prepare dinner but my tuesday night entertainment is replete.

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MagnoliaTaint · 24/05/2022 11:22

That was just Ricky reading the Green Party London meeting minutes from last night, I believe.

MagnoliaTaint · 24/05/2022 11:20

Holy fuck!

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LorenzoVonMatterhorn · 24/05/2022 11:17

Watching it now

tootiredtobother · 24/05/2022 11:16

just read in my newspaper that this is the show he has toured since 2019. SuperNature also on netflix

Bonheurdupasse · 24/05/2022 11:16

Thank you for flagging this!

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 24/05/2022 11:11

CaveMum · 24/05/2022 10:48

Clip has been posted on Twitter here: twitter.com/aja02537920/status/1529025826712391681?s=21&t=c8naK-5mWxkUREJqgcIufg

Hearing him in that clip sums up how absurd the statements are, 'her penis' Glad to see he's not afraid to say these things 😃

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 24/05/2022 11:09

That's my evening entertainment sorted! He cracks me up

CaveMum · 24/05/2022 11:08

@HotSauceCommittee it's a new Netflix special, I think based on a show he was doing last year.

zanahoria · 24/05/2022 11:06

Imagine a Ricky and Dave Chappelle double bill!