I've always liked Gervais' comedy but I felt like I'd heard a lot of this before. His jokes where the punchline is rape, a disabled kid, or turning around from sounding like he thinks the amount of homeless people are a blight on society, from an egalitarianism stand-point, to them just being horrible and the need to get rid of them, all felt recycled. His story of calling his mum and pretending to be blind is from his podcast/radio show with Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington from a long time ago. It's not unenjoyable, but he needs to write some more original jokes.
Before watching this, from some reviews and seeing the reception it received, I thought it would be full of anti-woke content, and while he starts and ends with it, and his jokes aren't what would be considered PC or 'woke', it's not a constant theme or what Ricky talks about. He ends by saying something like if woke is caring about equality then I'm woke, but if it's trying to get people fired for a joke then I'm not. And unfortunately that's where we're at in the current age. Other points from Ricky, like those about clowns having an issue when an actor plays an identity that isn't them, are spot on, but it isn't exactly something that hasn't been said before.
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