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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/golden-globes-host-jo-koy-booed-during-monologue-blames-writers-for-bad-jokes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Golden Globes&#8217;</a> elite audience and social media users&#8217; responses to comedian Jim Gaffigan’s pedophile joke at the 2024 award show made it clear that everyone wants comedian Ricky Gervais back as the host.
During the 81st annual awards show on Sunday, the 57-year-old actor and comic got more cheers and applause for his jokes than the comedian picked to host the 2024 show, Jo Koy.
&#8220;This is so exciting for me,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/goldenglobes/status/1744188845065994385?s=20">Gaffigan</a> said as a presenter at the annual ceremony for first-ever Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television. &#8220;The Golden Globes – I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m in the entertainment industry. I can&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s so unlikely,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m from a small town in Indiana. I&#8217;m not a pedophile. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a new category here, but …&#8221;
The room of star Hollywood performers roared with laughter at the gag and gave the comedian a round of applause.
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Jim Gaffigan calls out pedophilia in Hollywood at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a>: “I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m in the entertainment industry. It&#8217;s so unlikely… 
I&#8217;m from a small town in Indiana and I&#8217;m not a pedophile&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/RhNKeNX2ZH">pic.twitter.com/RhNKeNX2ZH</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1744435810739384532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
The comedian then <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/comedian-jim-gaffigan-torches-hollywood-at-golden-globes-with-pedophile-jab-in-wake-of-epstein-list-reveal?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dlvr.it_x_theblaze">listed</a> off the the names of nominees for the award which included, Gervais, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes, with the award going to Gervais for his successful Netflix special, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-hope-netflix-has-pre-ordered-the-fainting-couches-ricky-gervais-comedy-special-hits-netflix-outrage-ensues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ricky Gervais: Armageddon</a>.&#8221;
And over on X (formerly Twitter), the response to Gaffigan’s brief moment on the show was similar, with people posting clips of his bit along with clips of Gervais torching Hollywood four years earlier at the 2020 Golden Globes — all while <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/jo-koy-golden-globes-host-canceled-worst-jokes-memes-1858494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panning</a> the current host, Koy.
&#8220;Is it me or is this becoming a trend?” one person wrote on social media comparing the two comedians&#8217; appearances. &#8220;Jim Gaffigan pulled a Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. I&#8217;m here for it.&#8221;
Another added, &#8220;This is epic!  We got a [Ricky Gervais] moment at Pedowood&#8217;s 2024 Golden Globe.&#8221;
A third person included a side-by-side clip of Gaffigan&#8217;s appearance alongside <a href="https://twitter.com/Dknarfstudios/status/1744203687541543324/video/1">Gervais</a> —who torched Hollywood over its &#8220;pedophile movies&#8221; and cracked a joke about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while hosting the show in 2020.
&#8220;No one cares about movies anymore,&#8221; Gervais said at the time. &#8220;No one goes to cinema, no one really watches network TV. Everyone is watching Netflix &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;You could binge-watch the entire first season of &#8216;Afterlife&#8217; instead of watching this show,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s a show about a man who wants to kill himself &#8217;cause his wife dies of cancer and it&#8217;s still more fun than this.&#8221;
&#8220;Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so in the end he obviously didn&#8217;t kill himself,&#8221; Gervais continued. &#8220;Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he&#8217;s your friend, but I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;

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Audience Response Makes It Clear: Golden Globe Viewers Want Ricky Gervais Back

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ricky-gervais" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ricky Gervais</a> hit back at outrage over his new comedy special &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; after it became the number 1 show on Netflix.
The 62-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comedian-ricky-gervais-says-he-deals-with-taboo-subjects-in-his-shows-and-smart-people-can-deal-with-anything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British comedian</a> <a href="https://movieweb.com/ricky-gervais-response-netflix-armageddon-joke-removal-petition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the &#8220;faux offense&#8221; over jokes in his new one-hour special that hit the streaming site on Christmas Day comes from people just wanting attention.
A joke from the show about &#8220;crafting videos for terminally ill children&#8221; and the &#8220;Make A Wish&#8221; Foundation did cause a bit of controversy. Gervais said he always starts out the video by asking the kids,&#8221;Why didn’t you wish to get better? What are you f***ing ret**ed as well?&#8221;
Following the audiences response in the show, the comedian said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t do that&#8230; I&#8217;m playing a role.&#8221;
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What a wonderful world ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/pChprPpwqA">pic.twitter.com/pChprPpwqA</a>
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1739648924619514073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
Gervais pointed out that, &#8220;I don’t do that. But people have a reaction. They don&#8217;t analyze it. They feel something – that&#8217;s what offense is. It&#8217;s a feeling. That&#8217;s why &#8216;I&#8217;m offended&#8217; is quite meaningless. What do you want me to change?&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not really offended,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They just want to be heard.&#8221;
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&#8220;Of all the millions of people that watched it and loved it, only a few don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Gervais continued. &#8220;If I give them special attention and try and placate them, I&#8217;ve annoyed the other millions of people that got the joke. They go, &#8216;No, you&#8217;ve ruined it for us!'&#8221;
During his new comedy special, Gervais took a dig at twenty-somethings and the &#8220;crying&#8221; they do over jokes. He touched on the insanity of climate change, joked about loving &#8220;illegal immigration,&#8221; said there&#8217;s only &#8220;two genders,&#8221; and more.
At the top of his new special he also addressed the outrage over his last Netflix special, &#8220;Super Nature,&#8221; which he said &#8220;made it the most watched special of the year.&#8221;
&#8220;People saying &#8216;you can&#8217;t say that.&#8217; You can. You can,&#8221; Gervais added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-has-two-words-when-asked-about-hosting-2023-golden-globes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ricky Gervais Has Two Words When Asked About Hosting 2023 Golden Globes</a>

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">The Office</a>” is getting a remake, but now a woman will play the boss.
An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/australia">Australian</a> version of the classic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">NBC comedy</a> is currently in production, according to a report by <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/female-the-office-australia-prime-video-1235628956/">Variety</a>. Hannah Howard (Felicity Ward) will be the person in charge of this new iteration. 
The American version of the hit show aired from 2005 to 2013. “The Office” followed everyday employees working at the fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. One of the most iconic members of the staff was manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell).
“The Office” was based on the British comedy of the same name starring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ricky-gervais">Ricky Gervais</a> as the head honcho.
“I’m very excited about Australia remaking my little show from the turn of the century,” Gervais told Variety of the new project. “Office politics have changed a bit in 20 years, so can’t wait to see how they navigate a modern-day David Brent,” he said, referring to his character.
Other “Office” spinoffs exist in other countries, including France, Canada, Chile, Israel, and the Middle East, the outlet noted.
The newest Australian version will feature employees of a packaging company called Flinley Craddick being forced to work from home after COVID shutdowns. Manager Hannah will go to great lengths to keep her &#8220;office family&#8221; together despite these changes.
One of the most beloved aspects of the American version of “The Office” was the outlandish and irreverent humor, which one of the show’s stars said would never be accepted in today’s political climate.
Mindy Kaling acknowledged that the popular NBC comedy couldn’t exist in today’s hyper-sensitive, politically correct culture and said she believed most characters “would be canceled.”
“That show is so inappropriate now,” Kaling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mindy-kaling-says-the-office-is-so-inappropriate-now-and-most-characters-would-be-canceled">said</a> during an interview with Good Morning America in December.
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“The writers who I’m still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn’t make now,” she said. 
“Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now. I think that actually is one of the reasons the show is popular, because people feel like there’s something kind of fearless about it or taboo that it talks about on the show.”
The newest version of “The Office” will be available to stream on Prime Video worldwide sometime in 2024.

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No one is watching awards shows like they used to.
In mid-January, the Golden Globes only managed to draw 6.3 million television viewers, representing the lowest numbers in several years and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-diversity-efforts-golden-globes-ratings-tank-for-2023-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26% decrease</a> in audience compared to 2021. That particular awards show has been plagued by controversy for years as critics accused the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of being racist. 
But no one watched the ceremony even after they spent a full year fine-tuning diversity initiatives.
The Globes are not the only awards show suffering from a chronic lack of viewers. In September, the 74th Annual Emmy Awards attracted a mere 5.9 million eyes, a huge 25% drop from the previous year’s show. The event, touted as “television’s biggest night,” fell short of expectations in 2022.
Meanwhile, even the glitz and glamor of the Oscars wasn’t enough to draw people in like it has in the past. The 94th Academy Awards <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-least-watched-oscars-in-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was a huge fail</a> as it represents the second-least watched Oscars in the history of the show since Nielsen started tracking viewers in the mid-1970s.
There was a time when major broadcasts like the Academy Awards attracted an audience second only to the Super Bowl. So what’s going on with awards shows? Are TV watchers just over it?
There are several explanations for what’s going on and most of them aren’t pandemic related. But the pause in live broadcasts did affect viewership numbers and those people realized they don’t miss watching enough to tune back in.
“Once you’ve broken the habit, it’s hard to get them back,” said Preston Beckman, a media consultant who worked previously at Fox and NBC, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-13/oscars-grammys-awards-shows-ratings-struggling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the LA Times of people abandoning awards shows.
The same article noted that members of the 18 to 49 demographic, which they identified as the most attractive to advertisers, are not interested in live broadcasts the same way previous generations were. These viewers are hooked on streaming services, and while that may mean missing out on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on live TV, there’s always Twitter and thousands of follow-up memes to catch them up on what happened.
There’s a consensus among viewers that these shows are long, boring, and unnecessary. Even TV and movie fans who put value in which projects win don’t care to spend three hours of their lives waiting to find out the results.
Further, awards shows aren’t doing themselves any favors by nominating obscure, niche films that most people haven’t heard of. Would-be viewers are less likely to watch because they don’t agree that these are the best entertainment being created.
“As social media has risen, awards shows generally have declined because award shows represent a very top-down structure. ‘We, institution, will tell you, customer, what it is that you should like,’” Berklee College of Music professor George Howard <a href="https://bunewsservice.com/the-death-of-awards-shows-do-people-no-longer-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> BU News Service of why people were tuning out. “Now, that’s been inverted, where it’s ‘we, customer, will tell you, institution, what we like.’”
And let’s not forget one of the most common complaints about watching millionaires hand each other gold statues, a sentiment which rubs some people wrong even when the economy is healthy.
“The problem is, the big stars are completely dependent on the institution, so they have to play along with the charade that is totally self-congratulatory and totally divorced from any type of reality in order to keep the gravy train going,” Howard observed. “People, frankly, do not care.”
There’s another important problem with awards shows that the media rarely talks about. As the industry becomes increasingly politicized, celebrities are using awards speeches as a platform to broadcast their Left-wing talking points, which is in turn alienating half their potential audience. Viewers are sick of being lectured, so they’re simply not watching anymore.
Even the LA Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-13/oscars-grammys-awards-shows-ratings-struggling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> this was a major culprit for the viewership decline, writing, “some audience members don’t want to hear stars presenting their political positions on the programs.”
Awards show organizers have been working hard to bring the audience back. In 2020, the HFPA invited Ricky Gervais to host the Golden Globes, knowing he’d be controversial enough to attract viewers on both sides of the political spectrum.
The British comedian absolutely skewered members or “woke” Hollywood, telling jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew, and MeToo while movie stars like Tom Hanks looked on with looks of pure shock on their faces.
&#8220;You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,&#8221; he told the gathered crowd of celebrities. &#8220;You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.&#8221;
“If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*** off,” he said. “You say you&#8217;re woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you&#8217;d call your agent, wouldn&#8217;t you?”
Gervais isn’t conservative, but it had been so long since liberals allowed honest jokes that viewers immediately branded him that way.
“How the f*** can teasing huge corporations and the richest, most privileged people in the world be considered right-wing?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1214328382298755072?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wondered</a> on Twitter.
Predictably, Gervais wasn’t invited back to host the Globes. But it’s unclear if a provocative host would do anything to delay the continuing slow death march of the once mighty award show genre.
The reality is that ABC, CBS, and NBC all pay extraordinary licensing fees to broadcast these awards shows. If viewership continues declining, there could come a point when the networks consider it too costly to keep them just for nostalgia’s sake.
And if they went away, would anyone care that much?

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">James Corden</a> just issued a public statement after a mash-up of him telling a joke went viral, with fans accusing him of ripping off fellow comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ricky-gervais">Ricky Gervais</a>.
The “Late Late Night” host admitted that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">joke</a> came from Gervais first. 
“Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him,” Corden shared on Twitter. “It’s brilliant, because it’s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky’s excellent specials on Netflix. J x.”
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Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him. It’s brilliant, because it’s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky’s excellent specials on Netflix. J x
&mdash; The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/latelateshow/status/1587487965462155265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The replies on his confession tweet were limited to mentions only.
Corden was responding to the compilation user Paul Anthony made of Gervais telling the joke along with the late night host telling it. “Plagiarism? I don’t know what people are talking about, these two jokes by @JKCorden and @rickygervais are barely similar,” he wrote in the <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulFI9/status/1587396813199495169">caption</a>.
The joke is about someone putting up an ad offering guitar lessons on a public bulletin board and then becoming angry because they don’t personally want to take lessons. It was done as a comparison to Elon Musk taking over Twitter.
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Plagiarism? I don’t know what people are talking about, these two jokes by <a href="https://twitter.com/JKCorden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JKCorden</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rickygervais</a> are barely similar <a href="https://t.co/9kYOHiOiLj">pic.twitter.com/9kYOHiOiLj</a>
&mdash; Paul Anthony (@PaulFI9) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulFI9/status/1587396813199495169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Elon Musk talks about Twitter and goes &#8216;Well it&#8217;s the town square.&#8217; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;But it isn&#8217;t.'&#8221; Corden said during his monologue. &#8220;Because if someone puts up a poster in the town square that says &#8216;guitar lessons available&#8217; you don&#8217;t get people in the town going &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to play guitar! I want to play the piano.'&#8221;
“Well then that sign wasn’t for you!” Corden says in his bit, while Gervais also says, “Fine, it’s not for you then. Just walk away.”
Within a few hours, the clip had two million views. Gervais addressed the incident on Twitter but has since deleted his tweet. The original joke came from Gervais&#8217; 2018 stand-up special “Humanity.”
Many followers pointed out that Corden wasn’t likely the person who wrote the joke, but rather one of the “Late Late Show” employees was responsible for copying Gervais.
“So many people blaming Corden for this as if he writes his own jokes. He has a whole team of writers on that show. Obviously one of them ripped it off. Joke wasn’t even very funny,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/ArtyFrayn/status/1587415727732318210">observed</a>.
“I know Corden is very unlikely to have written this bit himself: this snafu is a good opportunity for him to take responsibility &amp; not throw the person who wrote his script under a bus,” another <a href="https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1587419329158586371">wrote</a>.

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James Corden Responds After Clip Of Him Telling Ricky Gervais Joke Almost Verbatim Goes Viral

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comedian-ricky-gervais-says-he-deals-with-taboo-subjects-in-his-shows-and-smart-people-can-deal-with-anything">Ricky Gervais</a> responded with two words on Sunday after someone on Twitter suggested the comedian host the 2023 Golden Globes awards show.
&#8220;F*** that,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ricky-gervais">61-year-old</a> British actor tweeted, along with a crying/laughing face emoji, in response to a tweet that read, &#8220;[Retweet] if you wish @rickygervais would host the golden globes again in 2023.&#8221;
The post also included just a smidge of the hilariously brutal NSFW comments he made during his performance in 2020 when he was emcee of the annual show.
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Fuck that 😂 <a href="https://t.co/sinOAmmqJd">https://t.co/sinOAmmqJd</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1579206017459838976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this year, &#8220;The Office&#8221; star reportedly told an audience in London that he &#8220;wouldn’t have made a joke about&#8221; Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s shaved head if he had hosted the Oscars, but would have made wisecracks about &#8220;her boyfriend&#8221; instead.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll get it out of the way,&#8221; the &#8220;Ghost Town&#8221; star <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/ricky-gervais-shares-his-take-on-chris-rocks-jada-pinkett-smith-oscars-joke-and-how-he-ended-up-trending-after-the-will-smith-slap">shared</a>. &#8220;I have not got any Will Smith material. I trended when that happened and I was not even there.&#8221;
&#8220;What has it got to do with me?&#8221; he added. &#8220;People were going &#8216;What would have happened if Ricky Gervais had been doing it (hosting Oscars)?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, nothing as I would not have made a joke about his wife’s hair,&#8221; Gervais continued. &#8220;I would have made a joke about her boyfriend.&#8221;
The &#8220;After Life&#8221; star famously hosted the Globes five times, with his opening monologue from 2020 going viral after he took a sledgehammer to celebrities and big tech companies for their hypocrisy.
The uncensored monologue from the 2020 Golden Globes can be seen below with cuts from Gervais&#8217;s no-holds-barred segments.
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To open the show, Gervais said it would be last time he planned to host the Golden Globes or any awards shows, sharing that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care anymore. I’m joking. I never did. I’m joking, I never did. NBC clearly don&#8217;t care either — fifth time. I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars for some offensive tweets — hello?&#8221;
He closed out the segment by telling stars not to use the platform to &#8220;make a political speech&#8221; noting that they weren&#8217;t in any position to &#8220;lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.&#8221;
&#8220;So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*** off, OK?&#8221; Gervais added.
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Ricky Gervais Has Two Words When Asked About Hosting 2023 Golden Globes

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The 18-year-old biological son of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>, who identifies as female, has filed court papers renouncing the billionaire and seeking a name change.
Xavier Musk wants to be known as Vivian Jenna Wilson, according to a petition filed in April in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica, California, and first reported by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10935873/Elon-Musks-transgender-child-18-files-court-docs-change-distance-him.html">Daily Mail</a>. In requesting a new birth certificate to reflect the name and gender changes, the younger Musk, whose mother is Canadian author Justine Wilson, dissed the Tesla boss.
“Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” the younger Musk <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-transgender-comments-resurface-child-changes-gender-1717486">gave</a> as the reason for wanting a name change.
Wilson and Musk were married from 2000 until 2008 and had six children. Xavier has a twin brother named Griffin and triplet brothers, Damian, Kai, and Saxon. Another son, Nevada, died of sudden infant death syndrome.
Musk has two other children with singer Grimes, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y. Grimes and Musk broke up earlier this year, and now she is reportedly dating transgender ex-Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who served time for giving confidential documents to WikiLeaks, before the sentence was commuted by then-President Obama.
Xavier Musk did not give a reason for rejecting the elder Musk, but it came just as Musk has been increasingly seen as opposing radical gender theory. On Monday, it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtq-diversity-officials-heads-roll-at-elon-musks-tesla">reported</a> that the Tesla chief had sacked the automaker’s volunteer “President of LGBTQ+,” although the move may have simply been part of a previously announced plan to reduce the company’s staff by 10%.
Musk has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-partner-grimes-publicly-scolds-him-after-he-tweets-pronouns-suck">complained</a> about people specifying their pronouns, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/ricky-gervais-elon-musk-netflix-b2090144.html">expressed</a> support for comic Ricky Gervais after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-unloads-on-transgender-mania-in-nsfw-rant">accused</a> of being a transphobe, and even responded to a review of The Daily Wire’s documentary on radical gender theory, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe-today-two">What Is A Woman?</a>”
“We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535733409083011073?s=20&amp;t=V5o6uGoozqwNvyn69HVG5g">tweeted</a> earlier this month in response to a review of the documentary. “Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy.”
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I wonder if we’re institutionalizing stereotypes about gender in the same way academics have tried to institutionalize stereotypes about how “hard work,” “being polite,” “punctuality” and the “written word” are “white culture.” <a href="https://t.co/zFb0QsQvE2">https://t.co/zFb0QsQvE2</a>
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Musk has insisted he supports the rights of the LGBT community.
“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1339253909546823682?lang=en">tweeted</a> in 2020.
On Sunday, the world’s richest man tweeted a message for all of his children.
“Happy Father’s Day,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1538397546510426112">tweeted</a>. “I love all my kids so much.”
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I love all my kids so much
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Comedian Ricky Gervais&#8217; new comedy special &#8220;Super Nature&#8221; had only been streaming on Netflix for a few hours when the outrage and pearl-clutching began.
Several people warned before the special even dropped that it was likely to trigger a response.
&#8220;Ricky Gervais is going to make a bunch of funny jokes in his new special. I hope Netflix has pre-ordered the fainting couches,&#8221; @AGHamilton29 <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1529094746794237952">tweeted</a>.
And Eoin Higgins <a href="https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1528134323496538114">warned</a>, &#8220;Ricky Gervais has a new comedy special coming out Tuesday. Word is that Netflix sat on it for months because of how virulently transphobic it is—worse than Chappelle—but are releasing it anyway for fear of right-wing backlash &#8230; It’s a &#8216;damned if you do damned if you don’t&#8217; equation in their mind, so they’re… going to placate the bigots. Okay.&#8221;
Gervais <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-reveals-what-he-would-have-said-if-they-let-him-host-the-oscars/">took no prisoners</a>, going right for the audience even as he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-unloads-on-transgender-mania-in-nsfw-rant/">took the stage</a> and telling them to &#8220;shut the f*** up&#8221; and stop &#8220;whooping.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m filming this, shut up, you c****,&#8221; he said to uproarious laughter.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rickygervais</a> new stand-up special Supernature is now streaming!!! <a href="https://t.co/XOIp8BaicG">pic.twitter.com/XOIp8BaicG</a>
&mdash; Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) <a href="https://twitter.com/NetflixIsAJoke/status/1529131544136261632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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From there, Gervais left no woke stone unturned — addressing cancel culture and the idea of &#8220;woke comedy&#8221; — but his jokes about trans people provoked a wave of backlash on social media.
&#8220;Women,&#8221; Gervais complained in exaggerated tones. &#8220;I mean, the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women. Oh God! You know, the ones with wombs. Those f***ing dinosaurs.&#8221;
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He went on to say that in today&#8217;s culture, one of the worst things a person could say was, &#8220;Women don&#8217;t have penises&#8221; — but that the cancel culture trend of digging up a person&#8217;s decades-old tweets would not be a problem in that particular case, since ten years ago no one tweeted &#8220;women don&#8217;t have penises.&#8221;
His explanation for that was simple: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t think we f***ing had to.&#8221;
Pink News <a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/24/ricky-gervais-supernature-netflix-trans/">referred to the special</a> in its entirety as &#8220;nothing more than an anti-trans garbage fire.&#8221;
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Ricky Gervais&#39; new Netflix special is nothing more than an anti-trans garbage fire <a href="https://t.co/ijRXBaX9jE">https://t.co/ijRXBaX9jE</a>
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&#8220;Ricky Gervais has a new stand up show out on Netflix today. 5 minutes in and he’s making jokes about trans women attacking &amp; raping people in public bathrooms. To him we exist only as a punchline, a threat, something less than human,&#8221; @discount_Ripley <a href="https://twitter.com/discount_Ripley/status/1529026025216266240">tweeted</a> in response.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be stupid to think re-peddling the most tired, ignorant, Trump-cult fuelled [sic] transphobic crap is edgy. Ricky Gervais, 40 years into his career, vomitting [sic] up toxic crap to make money from failing @netflix is little different to a Jim Davidson special for thick bigots,&#8221; Will Black <a href="https://twitter.com/WillBlackWriter/status/1529038476242558976">added</a>.
A review from The Independent said that the special &#8220;deals in cheap jokes and humiliating trans people.&#8221;
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Ricky Gervais: SuperNature deals in cheap jokes and humiliating trans people &#8211; review ⭐⭐ <a href="https://t.co/EdJciZlWrF">https://t.co/EdJciZlWrF</a>
&mdash; The Independent (@Independent) <a href="https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1528977426562301952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Gervais said that the response had already been so overwhelming that the streaming service had ordered his next stand-up special, titled &#8220;Armageddon.&#8221;
&#8220;#SuperNature was only released today, but thanks to you, @Netflix have ordered my next show #Armageddon already! The animal charities thank you too. You are beautiful,&#8221; he tweeted.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperNature?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SuperNature</a> was only released today, but thanks to you, <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Netflix</a> have ordered my next show <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Armageddon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Armageddon</a> already! The animal charities thank you too. You are beautiful ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/PrniZRoscx">pic.twitter.com/PrniZRoscx</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1529124459130638337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘I Hope Netflix Has Pre-Ordered The Fainting Couches’: Ricky Gervais Comedy Special Hits Netflix, Outrage Ensues

Ricky Gervais Comedy Special Hits Netflix, Outrage Ensues

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The cancel mob will be coming for Ricky Gervais in 3, 2, 1 &#8230;
The British comic mock the transgender movement in his new Netflix special, &#8220;Ricky Gervais: SuperNature,&#8221; and in his typical style, he pulls no punches. If Dave Chappelle could trigger the woke leftists with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dave-chappelle-accused-of-telling-transphobic-joke-heres-what-he-said">an innocuous joke</a> about his attacker having a gun &#8220;that identified as a knife,&#8221; they will be apoplectic with Gervais.
“The worst thing you can say today is:’ Women don’t have penises’, right?” Gervais says. “Now, no one saw that coming … We didn’t think we f***ing had to.”
&#8220;Women, I mean, the old fashioned women,&#8221; Gervais says, before mimicking a colloquy between a hard-leftist and a confused person trying to keep up with the changing gender mores. &#8220;You know, the one with wombs.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, those f***ing dinosaurs!&#8221;
Then, as himself: &#8220;No, I love the new women,&#8221; Gervais says. &#8220;They&#8217;re great, aren&#8217;t they? &#8230; The ones with beards and c***s.&#8221;
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&#8220;And now the old fashioned women [say], &#8220;Oh, they want to use our toilets!&#8221; Gervais continues, pivoting back into a mock discussion between two people.
&#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t they use your toilets?&#8221; Gervais says, channelling the transgenderism advocates.
&#8220;They&#8217;re ladies?&#8221; he asks.
&#8220;They are ladies! Look at their pronouns! What about this person isn&#8217;t a lady?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, his penis?&#8221;
&#8220;Her penis, you f***ing bigot!&#8221;
&#8220;What if he rapes me?&#8221;
&#8220;What if SHE rapes you, you f***ing TERF whore!&#8221;
Gervais joins Chappelle and Bill Maher as A-list comedians who in recent days have taken on the movement, although no one has gone as far as Gervais yet. On his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; last Friday, Maher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-the-babies-are-in-the-wrong-bodies-bill-maher-questions-trans-explosion-in-epic-rant">questioned how the &#8220;gender fluidity&#8221; movement has exploded so quickly</a>, and how it could be affecting children.
Citing a recent Gallup poll, Maher noted that less than 1% of Americans born before 1946 identified as LGBT. Now, according to the poll, 2.6% of Baby Boomers consider themselves LGBT; 4.2% of Gen Xers do; 10.5% of Millennials do, and 20.8% of Gen Zers do.
“Which means if we follow this trajectory, we will all be gay in 2054,” Maher said. “When things change this much, this fast, people are allowed to ask, ‘What’s up with that?’ All the babies are in the wrong bodies?”
Chappelle’s &#8220;The Closer&#8221; comedy special, which premiered last October on Netflix, triggered the streaming company&#8217;s LGBTQ employees, who were rebuffed when they demanded Chappelle be fired. In it, Chappelle said he aligned with “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” and poked fun at transgender ideology.
Netflix stood by Chappelle even after employees walked out, and the company recently sent out a memo telling employees to take a hike if they can&#8217;t take a joke.
&#8220;As employees we support the principle that Netflix offers a diversity of stories, even if we find some titles counter to our own personal values,&#8221; the memo, first reported by <a tabindex="0" href="https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">Variety</a> stated. &#8220;Depending on your role, you may need to work on titles you perceive to be harmful… if you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.&#8221;
Gervais is not likely to care about the cancel crowd coming after him with torches and pitchforks. He has roasted hard-Left <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/golden-globes-2020-ricky-gervais">Hollywood to its face</a>, and in 2016 he was criticized for taking shots at Caitlyn Jenner while hosting the Golden Globes
Still, in the special, Gervais says it&#8217;s all just a joke.
“OK, full disclosure, in real life, of course, I support trans rights,” Gervais says. “I support all human rights and trans rights are human rights. Live your best life. Use your preferred pronoun.”

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Comedian Ricky Gervais talked about how he &#8220;deals with taboo subjects&#8221; at his shows like AIDS, Adolf Hitler, and cancer as he claimed &#8220;smart people&#8221; can deal with anything, particularly when it comes to irony.
During the 60-year-old&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs35KefcNjU">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</a>&#8221; Tuesday, the host asked Gervais if he had to change his jokes for his new stand-up show &#8220;SuperNature&#8221; for Netflix. Gervais said he had started working on material for the special at the end of 2018, but the pandemic interfered with his progress.
&#8220;&#8216;It was always evolving,&#8221; Gervais shared. &#8220;There was a thought, &#8216;Will this be out of date?&#8217; And then I realized that when you&#8217;re dealing with, you know, famine, AIDS, cancer, Hitler, those dudes are evergreen. Yeah, so they&#8217;re not going to, they don&#8217;t date.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no audience that isn&#8217;t going to love that,&#8221; Colbert replied, busting up the comedian.
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&#8220;Boo! Not Hitler!&#8221; he added, laughing facetiously. &#8220;It was a long time ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Like, you don&#8217;t go to a Ricky Gervais concert for just feel good,&#8221; Colbert interjected.
&#8220;No, they do feel good, and the aim is to make them laugh and they do laugh, but they know that I deal with taboo subjects,&#8221; &#8220;The Office&#8221; star admitted. &#8220;But I deal with taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn&#8217;t been before and there is a tension.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think people get offended when they mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target, and smart people know you can deal with anything, particularly when dealing with something like irony,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Humor gets us over bad stuff. That&#8217;s why I laugh about terrifying bad things. You know, that&#8217;s why comedians are obsessed with death because, you know, it gets us through&#8230;it&#8217;s an inoculation to the real things that are going to happen.&#8221;
Gervais previously admitted he wants to &#8220;try and get cancelled&#8221; with his next stand-up show, reported U.K. magazine <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ricky-gervais-insists-wants-cancelled-26101495">Heat</a>.
&#8220;One thing I&#8217;ve decided to definitely do, and can&#8217;t wait to start on, is my new stand-up show, which is going to be called Armageddon,&#8221; Gervais shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m treating it like it&#8217;s my last one ever. It won&#8217;t be, but I want to put everything into it. I want to try and get cancelled. No, I just want to go all-out there.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s about the end of the world and how we&#8217;re going to destroy ourselves for lots of reasons, whether it&#8217;s media stupidity, or the actual end of the world,&#8221; he added.
SuperNature will be available on Netflix on May 24.

Comedian Ricky Gervais Says He ‘Deals With Taboo Subjects’ In His Shows And ‘Smart People’ Can ‘Deal With Anything’

Ricky Gervais: ‘Smart People’ Can ‘Deal With' When He ‘Deals With Taboo Subjects’ In Shows

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Comedian Ricky Gervais reportedly told an audience at a show in London that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have made a joke about&#8221; Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s hair, but would have made wisecracks about &#8220;her boyfriend&#8221; if he had been hosting the Oscars.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-reveals-what-he-would-have-said-if-they-let-him-host-the-oscars?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">60-year-old</a> comic&#8217;s appearance in Highgate, Gervais reportedly told the room he didn&#8217;t yet have any jokes related to Will Smith and his slapping of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards show Sunday after the comedian cracked a joke about Jada&#8217;s shaved head amid her hair loss battle, <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ricky-gervais-says-would-not-26594225">reported</a> the Mirror in a piece published Thursday.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll get it out of the way,&#8221; the &#8220;Ghost Town&#8221; star shared. &#8220;I have not got any Will Smith material. I trended when that happened and I was not even there.&#8221;
&#8220;What has it got to do with me?&#8221; he added. &#8220;People were going &#8216;What would have happened if Ricky Gervais had been doing it (hosting Oscars)?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, nothing as I would not have made a joke about his wife&#8217;s hair,&#8221; Gervais continued. &#8220;I would have made a joke about her boyfriend.&#8221;
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The stand-up comedian also reportedly joked about renaming his show following what happened at the Oscars.
&#8220;This new material is going to be for my new show called Armageddon,&#8221; Gervais shared. &#8220;I might change that to Alopecia.&#8221;
Gervais&#8217; comments were a reference to Smith&#8217;s wife confirming in 2020 she had been in an &#8220;entanglement&#8221; with 27-year-old singer August Alsina, while she was still married to Smith.
As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jada-pinkett-smith-admits-to-affair-in-awkward-discussion-with-husband-will-smith-who-was-aware-of-the-cheating">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Pinkett Smith admitted to the affair with Alsina while she said the couple was going through a rough time.
<blockquote>According to the duo, they were going through a rough time and split up “amicably,” though still legally married. Pinkett Smith started a friendship with Alsina that turned into an “entanglement,” which the actress later classified as a “relationship” when pressed by Smith.
The “Bad Boys” actor was in the know about the affair, the couple discussed. “There’s never been secrets,” Pinkett Smith said.
However, Smith did not give “permission,” since, argued Pinkett Smith, “the only person who could give permission in this particular circumstance was myself.”
Smith agreed.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-smith-struck-chris-rock-in-the-face-at-oscars-after-he-cracked-a-joke-about-jada-pinkett-smiths-hair-loss">reported</a>:
<blockquote>During a segment at the Oscars, the 57-year-old comedian remarked about how no one was wearing a mask in the theater before he turned his attention to Denzel Washington and praised him for his part in the movie “The Tragedy of MacBeth.” The superstar comedian then spotted Will Smith’s wife in the audience and cracked a joke about how Jada was going to be in the next “G.I. Jane” movie.
“Jada, I love ya,” Rock said. “G.I. Jane 2 movie, can’t wait to see it.”
Smith then got up from his seat and struck Rock in the face.
“Oh wow, wow. Will Smith just smacked the s*** outta me,” Rock said.
Smith then repeatedly shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth!”
“Wow, dude,” Rock replied. “It was a G.I. Jane joke.”</blockquote>
Smith later accepted his first Oscar ever for Best Actor for his role in the film &#8220;King Richard.&#8221; During his acceptance speech, he apologized to the Academy and to the other nominees but didn&#8217;t appear to apologize to Rock. Late Monday, the actor apologized to the comedian in a lengthy post on Instagram where he admitted that his actions were &#8220;out of line&#8221; and &#8220;wrong.&#8221;
On Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Smith&#8217;s actions at the 94th Academy Awards are under &#8220;formal review.&#8221; Days later, the Academy released a statement that Smith was &#8220;asked to leave the ceremony and refused,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-smith-chris-rock-academy-disciplinary-proceedings-1235122743/">reported</a> the Hollywood Reporter.
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Report: Ricky Gervais Tells Audience He Wouldn’t Have Mocked Jada Pinkett Smith’s Hair, But ‘Would Have Made A Joke About Her Boyfriend’

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