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Post by boskampsflaps on May 25, 2022 12:52:49 GMT
I like his stand up but I'm not really a fan of his TV or film work tbh. I don't get why everyone seems to rave about after life, I thought it was pretty hollow and nothing but trying to get an emotional response without having any sort of substance or intelligence about it.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 13:01:28 GMT
The Office was genius.
I can take or leave anything he's done since that.
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Post by GrahamHyde on May 25, 2022 13:42:46 GMT
Comedy genius, most of the stuff he's done has been brilliant, recent stand-up not so much.
Better alongside Merchant and Pilkington.
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 25, 2022 13:50:57 GMT
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Post by FbrgVaStkFan on May 25, 2022 19:24:25 GMT
Thought it decent.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on May 25, 2022 20:12:31 GMT
Usually don’t think he’s very funny but that was excellent |
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Post by spitthedog on May 26, 2022 10:18:38 GMT
If transgender activism isn’t up for challenging then we are in a bad place. I would say that transgender activism has taken on a fairly privileged role in the media. I would say there is a difference between joking about transgender community and joking about activists who exist in and around that community. A distinction between the two is important if we are going to make any progress at all. |
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Post by thewonderstuff on May 26, 2022 10:54:18 GMT
If transgender activism isn’t up for challenging then we are in a bad place. I would say that transgender activism has taken on a fairly privileged role in the media. I would say there is a difference between joking about transgender community and joking about activists who exist in and around that community. A distinction between the two is important if we are going to make any progress at all. I tend to agree that nothing is comedically off limits if treated with skill and craft and maybe its hard to judge from just that clip but that just looks cruel, there is no subtlety in any of those words in that clip alone. One things for sure I bet any trans person in the audience felt pretty threatened with the whooping and hollering around them and probably felt that they were most definitely the subject. Gervais has attracted lots of mainstream and popular support of course but also some encouragement from shall we say darker corners of the internet. Anyway, was this part before or after he ironically told the audience how rich he was for the 9th time  I prefer to remember the good times   |
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Post by RedandWhite90 on May 26, 2022 10:58:03 GMT
Having watched it today I found it very, very funny.
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Post by riverman on May 26, 2022 11:08:57 GMT
If transgender activism isn’t up for challenging then we are in a bad place. I would say that transgender activism has taken on a fairly privileged role in the media. I would say there is a difference between joking about transgender community and joking about activists who exist in and around that community. A distinction between the two is important if we are going to make any progress at all. Exactly this. The TRA's are the butt of the joke not the trans community, some of whom find the whole woke agenda surrounding them counter productive. I'm surprised other comics can't see this unless they see their own virtue signalling bollocks in it and it's struck a nerve. |
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Post by heworksardtho on May 26, 2022 16:46:33 GMT
Never seen him on TV so wouldn’t know
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 26, 2022 16:49:49 GMT
Never seen him on TV so wouldn’t know You must have seen him at Trentham Gardens though?👀 |
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Post by heworksardtho on May 26, 2022 17:26:47 GMT
Never seen him on TV so wouldn’t know You must have seen him at Trentham Gardens though?👀 Testing your dogging torch out 🥳 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 26, 2022 17:31:52 GMT
You must have seen him at Trentham Gardens though?👀 Testing your dogging torch out 🥳 Shut the fuck up!🤫👀 |
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Post by thewonderstuff on May 26, 2022 20:43:17 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on May 27, 2022 9:17:45 GMT
I watched it before reading all the headlines about it and just found it a bit odd. It was almost like one of his Golden Globes monologues stretched out for an hour designed to get a reaction which it has, so I guess he's achieved his goal.
Saying that, I quite like the guy but there are easily better stand ups around.
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 27, 2022 10:03:19 GMT
I watched it before reading all the headlines about it and just found it a bit odd. It was almost like one of his Golden Globes monologues stretched out for an hour designed to get a reaction which it has, so I guess he's achieved his goal. Saying that, I quite like the guy but there are easily better stand ups around. His stand up is lazy and cliched, his comedy series have generally been edgy and ground breaking. The first one is his cash cow, Netflix throw another few million at him for him to regurgitate the same old stuff. I'd rather him be honest and come out and say that instead of all this "provoking debate" bollocks.......... |
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Post by metalhead on May 27, 2022 22:39:24 GMT
I thought it was a very funny special. Designed up upset the most pathetic in society and pushing enough buttons to make the actual bigots (ironically) show their true colours  |
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Post by thewonderstuff on May 27, 2022 22:48:51 GMT
Yep. No greater skill, design or ambition than that. I wonder if he could do more. His scripted work certainly does, His stand up is base. |
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Post by metalhead on May 28, 2022 7:31:30 GMT
Yep. No greater skill, design or ambition than that. I wonder if he could do more. His scripted work certainly does, His stand up is base. So what? The Guardian write utterly despicable pieces at times, designed to offend. They've just knocked out an article describing Amber Heard as an 'imperfect victim'. Unbelievable and disgusting, quite frankly. If the Guardian and champagne socialists are crying and throwing their baby toys out the pram, then it is excellent. |
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Post by lordb on May 28, 2022 7:34:04 GMT
Yep. No greater skill, design or ambition than that. I wonder if he could do more. His scripted work certainly does, His stand up is base. So what? The Guardian write utterly despicable pieces at times, designed to offend. They've just knocked out an article describing Amber Heard as an 'imperfect victim'. Unbelievable and disgusting, quite frankly. If the Guardian and champagne socialists are crying and throwing their baby toys out the pram, then it is excellent. 'champagne socialists' Have you come straight from 1965? |
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Post by metalhead on May 28, 2022 7:35:33 GMT
So what? The Guardian write utterly despicable pieces at times, designed to offend. They've just knocked out an article describing Amber Heard as an 'imperfect victim'. Unbelievable and disgusting, quite frankly. If the Guardian and champagne socialists are crying and throwing their baby toys out the pram, then it is excellent. 'champagne socialists' Have you come straight from 1965? Ah |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 28, 2022 8:57:55 GMT
So what? The Guardian write utterly despicable pieces at times, designed to offend. They've just knocked out an article describing Amber Heard as an 'imperfect victim'. Unbelievable and disgusting, quite frankly. If the Guardian and champagne socialists are crying and throwing their baby toys out the pram, then it is excellent. 'champagne socialists' Have you come straight from 1965? I'll have you know that my mother was still using that phrase in the 1990's. |
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Post by noustie on May 28, 2022 9:13:12 GMT
Presecco Proles these days
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Post by metalhead on May 28, 2022 9:46:22 GMT
Presecco Proles these days Or as Ricky said.... Women with penis  |
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Post by OldStokie on May 28, 2022 11:44:22 GMT
He's a paradox. His early stuff was brilliant but he's now morphed into a poor example of those dross 'comedians' who think mocking people with problems is the best, and easiest, way of getting a laugh.
OS.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 29, 2022 8:28:10 GMT
Just for Ricky🙄
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 29, 2022 8:30:43 GMT
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 29, 2022 21:03:12 GMT
Trust me it wasn’t easy for me to pose for that with a wild animal on my head for 6 hours……. |
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Post by turtlefox on May 29, 2022 22:03:57 GMT
Good art should always make you think and if it can, be also risky.
I may be wrong but I don't think that most women of our time would see this as a good representation of modern femininity. For me, it's an obvious sculpture that someone would do if you are into gender politics, and that's not very risky at all. Not sure what the bear on top represents, unless bears do always shit in the woods and to be fair, this is very wooden.
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