Ricky Gervais believes people are too scared to take risks in comedy as he hits out at cancel culture: ‘There are these outrage mobs’

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After Life star insisted broadcasters are too scared to take risks in case they offend the so-called ‘outrage mobs’.Speaking to Times Radio, he said this week: ‘Now it would suffer because people would take things literally.‘There are these outrage mobs who take things out of context.‘This was a show about everything.

It was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that people fear to even be discussed or talked about now, in case they say the wrong thing and they are cancelled.’Ricky – who played hapless, ignorant and deluded boss David Brent in both series, as well as Christmas specials in 2003 – celebrated his iconic TV series celebrating its 19th birthday, as he wrote on Twitter: ‘19 years today since David Brent hit our.