Dan Levy, Kumail Nanjiani & More Talk About The ‘Duty’ Of Being Funny In New Comedy Roundtable

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Being funny is serious business. For its new Comedy Actors Roundtable, The Hollywood Reporter brought together Dan Levy, Ricky Gervais, Kumail Nanjiani, Ramy Youssef and Kenan Thompson for an open and frank conversation about the state of TV comedy.

RELATED: Kumail Nanjiani Is Fitter Than Ever In Quarantine Due To His ‘Demon’ Workouts “There comes a point where you go, ‘Listen, the joke is there, the joke is gettable, most people get it, if there is one person that doesn’t get it, I can live with that,'” Gervais says of people who don’t always get the irony in his comedy. “That someone might take you at face value doing an ironic joke or a satirical joke, well, yeah, some people try to inject themselves with bleach.