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Post by weststigersbob on Jan 7, 2020 11:18:57 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. You’d think that being the staunchest atheist in showbiz would be a massive no-no for the right wingers wouldn’t it..... He even made a joke about thanking god. But, as we all know, right wingers tend to have selective hearing and selective reasoning too.
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Post by damngumby on Jan 7, 2020 11:27:40 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. You seem to miss the point that the beauty of it was that it was a leftie ripping other lefties. Watching the left eat their own is always amusing ... plus it illustrated how far off the rails and out of touch liberalism and it's "elites" have become.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jan 7, 2020 11:59:11 GMT
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jan 7, 2020 12:00:23 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. You’d think that being the staunchest atheist in showbiz would be a massive no-no for the right wingers wouldn’t it..... He even made a joke about thanking god. But, as we all know, right wingers tend to have selective hearing and selective reasoning too. Right wingers are so stupid!!! They're always generalizing people on the other side!!
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 7, 2020 13:18:20 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. You seem to miss the point that the beauty of it was that it was a leftie ripping other lefties. Watching the left eat their own is always amusing ... plus it illustrated how far off the rails and out of touch liberalism and it's "elites" have become. 'Off the rails' would be a party that once ran on 'family values' blindly following a guy paying a porn star for sex while his wife is at home with the kid. 'Off the rails' would be a party that touts its fiscal responsibility while electing a guy who has routinely declared bankruptcy as a business tactic. And don't even get me going on evangelists who somehow support Trump. The left may be eating their own, but the right burned their own party to the ground-- and now the entire country is choking.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 7, 2020 13:19:53 GMT
Ricky Gervais has been doing this for years, not sure why some people are just now realizing it. I don't even pay attention to the Golden Globes and I was aware of his shtick.
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Post by sdm3 on Jan 7, 2020 13:20:58 GMT
Did someone mention leftists?!!! Goddamn leftists!!! With their political comments!!!! Kill Kaepernick!!!
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Post by NJtoTX on Jan 7, 2020 13:29:12 GMT
Not bad. Imagine a right-wing comic taking a big group of NRA white-pride conservatives down a few pegs.
So conservatives don't go see those lefty-made sequels and big budget CGI spectacles?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 7, 2020 13:32:19 GMT
Did someone mention leftists?!!! Goddamn leftists!!! With their political comments!!!! Kill Kaepernick!!! Why are leftists always starting threads to mock the other side of the political spectrum?
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Post by weststigersbob on Jan 7, 2020 13:54:50 GMT
You’d think that being the staunchest atheist in showbiz would be a massive no-no for the right wingers wouldn’t it..... He even made a joke about thanking god. But, as we all know, right wingers tend to have selective hearing and selective reasoning too. Right wingers are so stupid!!! They're always generalizing people on the other side!! I never said they were stupid. I said they have selective hearing and reasoning. And I’ve yet to meet a conservative who doesn’t do both. Hard Leftists are just as bad and in many ways are worse.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jan 7, 2020 13:55:38 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 7, 2020 16:20:50 GMT
It's too bad he and Stephen Merchant don't work together anymore. Both have done good work apart, but neither has been as good as they were together. Also Warwick Davis was legitimately funny in this show. As much as the joke of the whole thing was that he was getting work as a gimmick, he played that really well. I'd like to see him in more roles where he gets to show his face. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 7, 2020 16:43:47 GMT
It's too bad he and Stephen Merchant don't work together anymore. Both have done good work apart, but neither has been as good as they were together. Also Warwick Davis was legitimately funny in this show. As much as the joke of the whole thing was that he was getting work as a gimmick, he played that really well. I'd like to see him in more roles where he gets to show his face. How much does he hate Peter Dinklage?
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 7, 2020 17:03:18 GMT
What I find really funny is that to my ears, nothing he said was even approaching offensive. At All. I don’t get what the controversy is about. What is offensive is very subjective. What is not offensive to you and me doesn't me not offensive to others. Put yourself in the shoes of the PC Hollywood Elite and listen to Ricky Gervais through their ears. Those were very offensive stuff to them. Like Ricky Gervais said that many of them are friends of Jeffery Epstein. Their reaction can be very funny if you think these Hollywood Elite have been too arrogant.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 7, 2020 17:11:50 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. If you think this is a right-wing/left-wing thing, you are missing the point. It is about intolerant people, and Ricky Gervais was poking fun at them. It can be either left wing or right wing. Remember how George Carlin used to poke fun at the intolerant right. It was funny. Now we got the intolerant left. People like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, and Piers Morgan realized this and don't want to be part of it. You got the #Walkaway movement to get away from the intolerant people. There are good right and good left. It is the the intolerant on both sides making issues out of everything and gets offended by small and weird stuff, like an old man can be offended by people putting milk on his coffee without asking him.
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Post by Zos on Jan 7, 2020 17:22:28 GMT
I love that the right wingers loved it. If only they realised how left wing he is. Just loves taking the piss out of everything and everyone, a pretty normal British trait, including ourselves. You seem to miss the point that the beauty of it was that it was a leftie ripping other lefties. Watching the left eat their own is always amusing ... plus it illustrated how far off the rails and out of touch liberalism and it's "elites" have become. The whole point of satire is that you don't do sides. You can have staunch beliefs as Gervais does but everyone is up for grabs. That's what the right don't get, not everything has to be black or white. You reflect the audience and the zeitgeist.
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Post by Geddy on Jan 7, 2020 17:50:42 GMT
Something tells me he wont be invited back ever again. Someone says that every time he’s the host. That was his fifth time. He gave them exactly what they wanted. I think hes had enough as if you noticed at the very end of the show he told the audience to FO and then left. |
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Post by orlandogardner on Jan 7, 2020 18:52:02 GMT
Self-serving as usual from Gervais. Gain kudos from the proles (and apparently the right wing nut-jobs too) while living the life of those he is mocking. He's a prick.
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Post by tristramshandy on Jan 7, 2020 19:04:30 GMT
Self-serving as usual from Gervais. Gain kudos from the proles (and apparently the right wing nut-jobs too) while living the life of those he is mocking. He's a prick. That all can be true - - but there are funny pricks too.
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Post by orlandogardner on Jan 7, 2020 19:39:28 GMT
Self-serving as usual from Gervais. Gain kudos from the proles (and apparently the right wing nut-jobs too) while living the life of those he is mocking. He's a prick. That all can be true - - but there are funny pricks too. Absolutely. But he isn't one of them.
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