Ricky Gervais’s Netflix comedy special SuperNature dropped last night and is already attracting criticism for “transphobic” jokes.
Gervais begins the special with jokes about women not being funny and not being able to take a joke, then swiftly moves on to transgenderism:
Not all women, I mean the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women, the ones with wombs. Those f***ng dinosaurs. I love the new women. They’re great, aren’t they? The new ones we’ve been seeing lately. The ones with beards and c***s. They’re as good as gold, I love them. And now the old-fashioned ones say, “Oh, they want to use our toilets.” “Why shouldn’t they use your toilets?” “For ladies!” “They are ladies — look at their pronouns! What about this person isn’t a lady?” “Well, his penis.” “Her penis, you f***ing bigot!” “What if he rapes me?” “What if she rapes you, you f***ing TERF whore?”
Later, when discussing cancel culture, Gervais said that “you can’t predict what will be offensive in the future” because “you don’t know who the dominant mob will be.”
Like, the worst thing you can say today, gets you canceled on Twitter, death threats, the worst thing you can say today is, “Women don’t have penises,” right? Now, no one saw that coming. You won’t find a ten-year-old tweet saying “Women don’t have penises.” You know why? We didn’t think we f***ing had to!
Funny because it’s true?
Gervais also took aim at so-called woke comedy, saying, “I’d rather watch Louis CK masturbate.” Evidently, Netflix has made a similar calculation that controversial comedy is more popular (and lucrative) than woke content. Last week, the streaming giant fired 150 employees “many of whom created content that catered to various racial and sexual identities,” our Caroline Downey reported.