Ricky Gervais

This is the story of Ricky Gervais, a pioneer of sharp-elbowed comedy who decided to puncture his own legacy of speaking truth to power. In one fail swoop, catalysed by the release of his Netflix stand-up speical, SuperNature, Gervais made a series of jokes which could have been at home on a Republican conspiracy theorist's Twitter and annointed them comedy. In doing so, he exchanged a career's worth of political capital as someone who has ostensibly been a rock soild progressive, just for a chance to say he could be 'cancelled'... This episode was written by Anton Ferrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ricky Gervais is an episode from Cancelled by Sony Music.

This episode is 19:03 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2023.

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