Ricky Gervais created After Life to fight cancel culture and refused to censor jokes

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Ricky Gervais created After Life in a bid to wage war on cancel culture.The comedian, 60, has revealed he was sick of seeing people lose their careers because of their opinions.He decided the best way to tackle it was to create a sitcom packed with controversial moments.He told the Daily Star Sunday: “In 2017 it was the beginning of people worrying about what they said and getting fired and getting in trouble.“The social justice warriors were getting people cancelled.

I was on tour at the time and started writing After Life.“I thought, ‘What if you didn’t care about what happened tomorrow. What if you didn’t care about the consequences?’“It all started from that.

It’s the whole concept of the show.”After Life is about a reporter who feels suicidal, so he doesn’t care what people think of him.Ricky added: “The comedy in After Life comes from us living vicariously through this man.“He says what he wants because he’s angry and upset and he doesn’t care about living.”For his plan to work, Ricky made sure there weren’t any executives interfering when he made After Life.The last thing he wanted was for any jokes to be censored.He said: “I wanted to be left alone to make it.

If people had been interfering from the beginning, I’d be going, ‘Okay, I won’t do that. I’ll drop that’.“Throughout my career, I’ve always demanded final edit and there’s usually been a compromise.“But with After Life, Netflix told me, ‘We don’t interfere either and we’ve got a global platform of hundreds of millions of people’.