doubling down on his defense of “taboo comedy” amid ongoing social media outrage over a series of jokes in his new Netflix special/ “SuperNature,” which many online critics deemed transphobic.“I think that’s what comedy is for — getting us over taboo subjects so they’re not scary anymore,” the 60-year-old Emmy-winner told BBC One’s “The One Show” on Tuesday, the same day his special dropped on Netflix. “It’s like a parachute jump — it’s scary, but then you land and it’s all OK.”“So I deal with everything.
And I think we second guess the audience too much,” added the controversial UK comic, who said that most offense comes from fans conflating the jokes with the target.His statement followed the release of the comedian’s latest special “Supernature,” in which the comedian mercilessly mocked the trans community.“I love the new women,” Gervais snarked in one of the inflammatory bits. “They’re great, aren’t they?
The new ones we’ve been seeing lately. The ones with beards and c – – ks. They’re as good as gold, I love them.”The perennial pot-stirrer continued, “And now the old-fashioned ones say, ‘Oh, they want to use our toilets.’ ‘Why shouldn’t they use your toilets?’ ‘For ladies!’“‘They are ladies — look at their pronouns!
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