Cue outrage: Gervais' new Netflix special just dropped.

Aw, wow, I had forgotten the beauty of that video. Amazing.

I wonder how he deals with the cognitive dissonance of saying for all those years “it’s not a woman’s dress, it’s mine” and now for some reason saying he’s a woman.

I love his comedy, and he’s done very good work for charity, but that really does make me unhappy to see.

He says absolutely nothing that is not absolutely on message. He makes no commentary on it. He just says what they say. Word for word.

The fact that the audience fall about laughing on hearing it is the point. And the source of the rage.

How Ricky managed to get so much into such a short time is just genius.

For those missing repent motherfucker

m.youtube.com/watch?v=y9h6F6bJRVs

now EI has decided he’s actually woman when he wears a dress “girl mode” not so much…

I saw EI today, we were walking towards each other so couldn’t avoid looking, he had the highest stilettos on, full make up and extremely tight clingy leggings- everything was there for all to see. 🤮

They talked about why he enjoys comedy and how he approaches taboo subjects. Focussed on his introduction to the piece which talked about and illustrated irony. There is lots of taboo in the show to be fair and they didn't specify any particular bit. Comments read out at the end about the show were all positive.

I don't find him all that funny usually, but I certainly intend to watch this.

"Punch up/punch down" I don't care - as long as it's funny.

I'm still waiting for the figures detailing how many trans people were murdered after Netflix aired the Chappelle show.

So tired of the "this will lead to the deaths of trans people...". Hasn't happened so far, whilst the suicide rate of those who transition and realise it hasn't solved their problems remains high.

That skit has been played out in real life on Twitter, over and over.

Who hasn't seen women writing long paragraphs about sex offenders in female prisons, and saying his penis, and then being jumped on my TRAs at the end, saying her penis, her penis, you bigot!

All very deliberately deadly serious and intimidating.

And now Gervais has just blown a fucking massive hole through the batshittery.

The TRA juxtaposition of utterly focusing on the pronouns, and completely ignoring the crimes, is what makes it absolutely ripe for a massive piss take.

And mocking things robs them of their power.

Something that Gervais knows only too well.

Netflix got ahead of this and told its employees if they object to its content they could leave.

Ah yes, of course they did! That was a good statement they released.

All that and the 'jokes are funny' placard that wound them all up so much

honestly - don't you sometimes end up going down a twitter wormhole and mentally playing the hogwart's sorting hat game, "you're an good egg"... "nope, you drank the Kool Aid"... "good egg"..."Kool Aid drinker"...

I'm disappointed too, it was a veritable masterpiece. The face of the man who was on the receiving end was perfectly baffled.

Don't forget the tambourine!

Well I enjoyed that. Made me laugh in places.

I love that fact that he has a proper Berkshire accent. No one does now.

That's tragic, the repent motherfucker dance was the funniest thing I'd seen all decade. I was hoping very much for a repeat performance. (Complete with the very polite, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, as the artist made their way to exorcise the demons)

Sadly, I don't think we'll be treated to another Repent Motherfucker demonstration from what I've read recently many of them have left because Netflix refused to bow down over Chappelle and a further 290 have since been axed. It appears that the ones axed were the wokest and prolific social justice warriors on social media, a number of projects have had the plug pulled and those working on them dispatched it seems the projects were on LGBTQ+ issues. Netflix says the lay offs were due to a decline in subscriptions and slow down in revenue, more likely that the viewer numbers for those type of projects did the talking.

... but it's true. They're beyond satire. Thank god someone is putting this on stage where it belongs.

Amidst the outrage, its got people talking who probably weren't that aware of all this
twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp/status/1528978763647750144

He's joking about being cancelled now but seems to get it at least.

A really god point has been raised here.

What is so offensive about what he has said?

He is literally repeating the mantras. How can they be so offended by someone just amplifying their public stance?

Pronouns are sacrosanct.
Male women are more important, valid and superior than female women.
We’re all hateful, bigoted, TERF dinosaurs.

How are the TRA’s so offended by a mirror being held to their core beliefs?

I don't think the criticism of punching down works very well as a rule. There's just clever comedy and poor comedy, and often that up to individual opinion.

But the very idea that someone/anyone can identify their way into a less privileged group and is therefore beyond being made fun of is bonkers.

🤣

Are you Ricky or do you identify as Ricky!

To be fair he does point out that if anyone is in a minority group, it's him (as a heterosexual multimillionaire) and such he's in a perfect position to make jokes about other minority groups