Ricky Gervais donates £427,000 from Supernature ticket sales to animal charities

Ricky Gervais’ Netflix special SuperNature.Gervais has faced criticism over “transphobic” jokes in the special that was released on Tuesday (May 24), with LGBT rights organisation GLAAD describing the show as “full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes”.After the special was released, a clip from Kumar’s show It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourself Part 2 has been widely shared on social media, where he calls out Gervais for deciding to “shit on the latest minority group”.In the clip, Kumar asks: “Guys, why is everyone so angry with trans people? What did they do? There’s like 12 of them, why is everyone so upset? Everyone’s like, do you say ‘he’ or ‘she’? I don’t know, ask. It’s not an unsolvable conundrum.“Also in my experience, trans people aren’t deliberately mysterious when they do ask.”“Why can’t we do jokes about trans people? What makes them so special?”You can.

Comedian Ricky Gervais is doubling down on the transphobic material included in his new Netflix special SuperNature. Trigger Warning: This story discusses homophobia and transphobia, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Speaking with The Spectator, Gervais, 60, claimed, “My target wasn’t trans folk, but trans activist ideology.

Britain’s “The One Show.”The 60-year-old comedian appeared on the BBC chat show Tuesday where he discussed his new Netflix special “SuperNature” as well as his future “death.”Hosts Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas asked Gervais about his genre of comedy — with him labeling it as “taboo.”After their discussion, the conversation went dark and morbid with Gervais saying: “I’m fat and old and I’m going to die soon.”Jones and Jenas were dumbfounded by the statement, with Jones correcting him by exclaiming, “No you’re not!”“I am,” Gervais insisted, adding, “I’ve brought it down haven’t I?”Jenas chimed in, “Lift it back up.” Then, Gervais replied blatantly, “Every day I’m closer to death.”“Well, we’re all a bit closer to death. Every day is a bigger percentage of the rest of your life and we don’t know what percentage that will be.

Ricky Gervais shocked the hosts of The One Show after he said he was 'going to die soon' during a chat about his new Netflix special SuperNature.

Netflix is under fire again due to jokes about the transgender community in Ricky Gervais‘ new comedy special.

Ricky Gervais’ Netflix special SuperNature.Gervais has faced criticism over “transphobic” jokes in the special that was released on Tuesday (May 24), with LGBT rights organisation GLAAD describing the show as “full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes”.Since the special was released, a clip from Acaster’s show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 has been shared across social media, which targets “edgy comedians” who “slag off transgender people”.In the clip, Acaster says: “They say whatever they like, edgy comedians. No one tells them what they can and can’t say.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Trans Defamation (GLAAD) has condemned Ricky Gervais’ new Netlfix special SuperNature, writing in a Twitter thread that his set is “full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes.” The organization also noted that the comedian and star of the original, British version of The Office “spouts anti-gay rhetoric & spreads inaccurate information about HIV.” The first of the rants GLAAD are referring to begin four minutes into Gervais’ special. “Oh, women!” he exclaims at the start of the offending bit. “Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones.

Ricky Gervais is speaking out amid the backlash surrounding his new Netflix special, SuperNature.

Ricky Gervais has defended making jokes about “taboo subjects” following the backlash to his Netflix special SuperNature.The comedian has faced criticism over “transphobic” jokes in the special that was released on Tuesday (May 24), with LGBT rights organisation GLAAD describing the show as “full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes”.Speaking on BBC’s The One Show following SuperNature’s release, Gervais echoed his comments from a recent appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.“I think that’s what comedy is for, really – to get us through stuff, and I deal in taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn’t been before, even for a split second,” Gervais said.“Most offence comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target.”"I want to take the audience to a place they haven't been before." @rickygervais doesn't shy away from taboo subjects.

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.

Ricky Gervais doesn’t let criticism get him down.

Ricky Gervais‘ for his “fucked up” new Netflix special and called him an “anti-woke trans-bash” comedian.Gervais has been criticised this week over “transphobic” jokes in his new comedy special SuperNature, in which the controversial comedian makes numerous jokes about the trans community.Oh, women,” he begins in the show. “Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs.

“The new ones we’ve been seeing lately.The ones with beards and c**ks.” He then imagines a conversation with a woman who objects to sharing a bathroom with a trans woman: “They are ladies, look at their pronouns. “What about this person isn’t a lady?” He then responds: “Well, his penis.”“Full disclosure: in real life, of course, I support trans rights,” Gervais later says. “I support all human rights, and trans rights are human rights. Live your best life.

Ricky Gervais has come under fire after jokes made in his new Netflix comedy special ‘SuperNature’ were dubbed transphobic.The comedian, 60, made a string of graphic and offensive jokes as part of his stand-up routine, and was immediately slammed for the material.Ricky Gervais said on the Netflix show: “Oh, women! Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs.

It comes after the release of Ricky’s new stand-up show on Netflix, named SuperNature.The star was quizzed during the interview about how he deals with telling jokes in which he often talks about how wealthy he is.Alex Jones said: “You talk about your wealth a lot.“That can be really uncomfortable sometimes but the audience absolutely laughs it up.“How do you manage to pitch that so well?”Ricky replied by saying that it was because the audience “knows what I am doing”.He said: “Because they know what I’m doing.“They know I’m taking the mickey out of it.“It’s the elephant in the room.

The One Show. Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas were on the sofa with special guests Dame Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green, the creators of the Covid vaccine. However, Ricky was first up for a chat as he promoted his new Netflix special, SuperNature.

Multiple liberal media outlets are having a hard time dealing with taboo-breaking comedian Ricky Gervais' new Netflix comedy special because of its jokes about transgender people. Gervais’ new special, titled "SuperNature," debuted on the streaming platform Tuesday and has already received multiple scathing reviews for containing several outrageous jokes about trans people and the activists who aggressively insist that the public respect their pronouns.  Hollywood magazine Variety, and British outlets Metro and The Independent clutched their collective pearls over the special.  Variety's opening salvo skewered it for trying to "score points off of a marginalized group of people." The Hollywood outlet slammed the special as a "collision between two malign forces," namely Gervais and Netflix.

Outspoken comedian and actor Ricky Gervais is known for touching on taboo topics with his stand-up routines and TV roles. But he left The One Show hosts Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas almost lost for words when his interview on the BBC chat show took an unexpected turn.

Ricky Gervais left The One Show hosts - Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas - with their mouths wide open as he told them he was "going to die soon".The comedian, 60, had been busy chatting with the hosts about his upcoming Netflix standup comedy show SuperNature.Alex quizzed the After Life creator over certain jokes in his latest sketch about his own wealth and wasn't prepared for Ricky's response. The Welsh presenter asked: "Throughout this you mention, your wealth quite a lot and that can be really uncomfortable sometimes but the audience absolutely lap it up."So how do you manage to pitch that so well?"Ricky responded: "Because they know what I'm doing.

Ricky Gervais has a lot to say about the transgender community in his new Netflix special — and it’s NOT going over well.

Ellise Shafer LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD has responded to Ricky Gervais’ newest Netflix special, which has drawn criticism due to jokes mocking trans people.In a statement, GLAAD called the special “dangerous,” saying that it consists of “anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes.”“We watched the Ricky Gervais ‘comedy’ special on Netflix so you don’t have to. It’s full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes.