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Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, film producer, director and musician. He is perhaps best known for creating, writing and acting in the British television series The Office (2001–2003). He has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the Rose d'Or twice (2006 and 2019), as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007, he was placed at No. 11 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and at No. 3 on the updated 2010 list. In 2010, he was named on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
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Ricky Gervais: Cancel culture has made people lose their sense of irony
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standard.co.ukRicky 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. "There are these outrage mobs who take things out of context. "This was a show about everything - it was about.
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