Ricky Gervais blasts 'fake' Kardashians for 'embarrassing' themselves in Instagram ads

BBC Radio 1 star Fearne Cotton has slammed cancel culture, branding it "toxic" while reflecting on her career at the broadcaster. In a new interview, the radio DJ, 40 examined the effect that cancel culture has had on the entertainment industry, branding the phenomenon a "toxic little b*****d".Reflecting on her time as one of the last presenters of hit BBC show Top of the Pops, Fearne told Big Issue's guest editor, musician Yungblud, that there has been a "shift" in how bands present themselves.Looking back on how the music scene has changed since she hosted the show, Fearne branded it a "great time," adding: "You could kind of do whatever you wanted back then."Lots of bands were quite wild and just completely themselves, essentially, without any media training, without anyone saying: ‘This is what is popular right now'."The star added that she recognised the change as she was leaving her role at the BBC, claiming there was a "shift" around this time.The Happy Place Podcast host went on: "There was certainly a shift, maybe just as I was leaving Radio 1."It felt like it was getting trickier for artists to cultivate a space that was their own.“I think culturally, it’s harder because cancel culture exists, which is a horrible, toxic little b*****d.

K.J. Yossman As BBC Studios gears up for its annual showcase, where it introduces its upcoming hot projects to international buyers, U.K.-based Jonathan Blyth, BBC Studios’ director of comedy, and Kelly Miller, BBC Studios’ Los Angeles-based senior VP of scripted strategy, sat down with Variety to discuss what’s on their comedy slate, working with streamers and the biggest challenges they’re currently facing.What do you look for in a comedy?Kelly Miller (KM): It’s all about authentic storytelling, that lived-in experience, a talent who has something to say. Those are the comedies and the shows that are most resonant with audiences around the world, but particularly here in the U.S.Jonathan Blyth (JB): Talent is very much at the heart — front and centre.

RICKY Gervais has criticised cancel culture and wokeness as a "weird sort of fascism". The comedian and actor, 59, spoke up in defence of free speech in a recent interview with TalkRADIO amid the growth of a movement that shames and silences anyone with opposing views.

RICKY Gervais has slammed celebrities, including the Kardashians, who accept crazy amounts of money to do sponsored posts on social media. Ricky, 59, made the comments during a live periscope broadcast as he sipped on a BrewDog beer.

Ricky Gervais doesn’t do sponsored ad posts on social media.

Ricky Gervais has slammed celebrities for endorsing 'embarrassing' sponsored posts.

If you were to name a list of the most influential and beloved sitcoms of the 21st century, it wouldn’t take long before you reach “The Office,” both the British and American varieties. The series, originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in 2001, was a huge hit in the UK when it was released and would spawn an even more successful reboot in the US in 2005 (lasting for 9 seasons).

Ricky Gervais called out the lack of online discourse and what he sees as the new “fascists” on social media. The often controversial comedian and creator of the U.K.

BBC’s “The Office” became a huge success when it debuted in 2001, catapulting co-creator Ricky Gervais to stardom.

Ricky Gervais wouldn’t make his hit TV comedy The Office today as BBC bosses would be too scared of “outrage mobs” to air it.

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.

The Office may have been made differently today thanks to ‘cancel culture’.The actor, who starred in the BBC comedy from 2001 to 2003 as cringeworthy office manager David Brent, said the current debate about what is deemed acceptable would bring his and co-creator Stephen Merchant’s award-winning mockumentary series straight into the conversation.“This was a show about everything,” Gervais told Times Radio yesterday (July 9).

Ricky Gervais believes that The Office would “suffer” if it was released now because cancel culture has caused viewers to lose “their sense of irony and context.”Gervais’ Bafta-winning series debuted on BBC Two in 2001 and saw the comedian, 59, star as hapless manager David Brent, who regularly made tone deaf, offensive remarks to his colleagues. Looking back on the show in an interview with Times Radio on Friday, Gervais said audiences would take things too “literally” if the office was released now, “even though [the jokes] were clearly ironic.”“Now [the show] would suffer because people would take things literally," he said.

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© Getty FILE - In this Thursday, March 7, 2019, file photo, Ricky Gervais attends a screening of Netflix's "After Life" at the Paley Center for Media in New York. Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globe Awards. Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globe Awards, which will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 5, 2020 and aired live on NBC. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) Ricky Gervais has called for celebrities to be snubbed in the New Year Honours List this year, in place of those who helped out in the current crisis.

Ricky Gervais has called for celebrities to be banned from the Queen’s New Years Honours list this year in favour of NHS workers fighting on the coronavirus frontlines. 

RICKY Gervais has called for celebrities to be BANNED from the New Years Honours list - and replace with NHS heroes. The 56-year-old star also laid into fashion designers and beauty gurus - claiming that they are not worthy of the prestige.

Ricky Gervais fears he may never be able to perform his stand-up comedy routine in arenas again as a result of the coronavirus.

Ricky Gervais is keeping himself entertained while in the coronavirus quarantine. Like many others, the 58-year-old funnyman has been trying to keep himself occupied while stuck at home and has been utilizing his essentials -- wine and beer -- to enjoy himself.

Ricky Gervais has expressed sympathy for UK prime minister Boris Johnson amid criticism of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.