Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Frankie Boyle calls out Ricky Gervais over his ‘lazy’ jokes about trans people: ‘He’s not a stand-up comedian’
metro.co.ukGrounded with Louis Theroux podcast when he made the comments.Boyle said: ‘If you’re a stand-up watching him, you feel like, “oh, that’s someone doing a version of what we do”.‘But really, it’s that I saw him doing his routine about trans people and I thought it was very lazy.‘I would like him to have the same respect for trans people as he seems to have for animals.
I don’t think that’s a lot to ask.’The comic, who is also known for his own brand of controversial jokes, said: ‘I mean, look, we know Ricky Gervais, he’s a brilliant actor, he’s a brilliant writer, he’s not a f***ing stand-up comedian!‘Just ‘cause Ricky Gervais self-identifies as a stand-up comedian, am I supposed to say that he is one?
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