Ricky Gervais says smart people can take AIDS and Hitler jokes

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If you can make a joke, Ricky Gervais probably thinks you have a brain.

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Comedian stopped by Late show with Stephen Colbert This week, the “wise man” declared that he could handle all kinds of humor, even if the joke contained a taboo subject.

“A wise man can handle anything, especially when dealing with something ironic,” Gervais told Colbert during a stop to promote his new Netflix comedy special. SuperNature..

In upcoming stand-up sets, Gervais will make jokes about supernatural claims and talk about “comedy rules.”

But when Colbert asked Emmy winners if they had a pandemic rethink his daily life, Gerves said some gags would never be out of date.

“There was the idea,’Is this obsolete?’ And when you were dealing with famine, AIDS, cancer, Hitler, I realized that those guys were evergreens, yeah, they. I don’t go, so I don’t date, “he said with a laugh. “Boo! Not Hitler! Long ago.”

“No audience doesn’t like it,” Colbert replied.

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Gervais said he deals with taboo subjects because he wants to make the audience laugh in different ways, even if he feels a little uncomfortable.

“I think people are offended if they mistake the subject of a joke for a real target. Smart people know that you can deal with anything, especially when dealing with irony.”

Recently, the host of the five Golden Globe Awards revealed an Oscar joke that he would have told Will Smith about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

“When that happened, I was in fashion, and I wasn’t even there. People said,” What if Ricky Gervais was doing it (hosting an Oscar)? ” Well, there was nothing (as Rock did) because I wasn’t joking about his wife’s hair. She would have been joking about her boyfriend. ” 50-year-old Pinkett Smith swipes “intertwined” with R & B singer August Alsina.

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In a previous interview with SunGervais said that when he jokes with a bad taste, his audience knows he’s joking. “When I work on taboo subjects and discuss them, they understand satire — they understand it.”

Besides, he added, his joke ass is usually him, or everyone with him. “We are all stupid,” he said. “Let’s get started.”

The funny guy is currently workshoping his next stand-up comedy, Armageddon.. The ironic title when asked if humanity is destined says: There to stop it.

“I think we will always create a genius to save the rest of Moron.”

SuperNature It will hit Netflix on May 24th.

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