Defiant Ricky Gervais says ‘jokes’ about dying children will stay in Netflix special: ‘I’ll even retweet it’
nypost.comBBC Radio 5 Live in an interview on Wednesday.“I’m even saying I don’t do that,” he said. “Literally saying in the joke I don’t do that.”In “Armageddon,” premiering Christmas Day, Gervais refers to making videos for the Make-A-Wish foundation, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, during the pandemic — and says his first reaction to the kids is “Why didn’t you wish to get better?
What, you f – – king retarded as well?”“I didn’t do that either,” he tells the live audience. “These are all jokes, all right? … I don’t burst into hospitals and go ‘Wake up baldy.
Look at me twerking on TikTok.'” Gervais also took to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday about the controversy. “In this show, I talk about sex, death, paedophila (sic), race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the holocaust, and Elton John.
If you don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch. You won’t enjoy it and you’ll get upset,” he wrote.
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