Is this sort of thing really relevant to /r/unitedkingdom? It feels like it belongs more in a standup comedy subreddit.
It’s hilarious, reminded me of his old Sunday show routine, he fully deserves this
This tells me a lot over the quality of British stand-up, when the best is an arsehole that is not even funny.
What in the actual fuck? That standup special was TERRIBLE!
I don’t care about the politics in it is just wasn’t remotely funny.
Shit I thought Dave Chapelle’s was shite too but it was orders of magnitude better than Gervais.
That’s honestly insane to me. Golden Globes mean nothing now
Were here no other stand up specials? I fell asleep half way through this, I’m not sure I laughed even once
Small amount of people didn’t like him & bitch about it on twitter: controversy
Excellent I think I’m in a minority of 1 who thought his special was pretty good.
Stand up is in a bad place. It’s either Rogan mates or the usual parade of “you can’t say anything these days, can you?” anti-woke shock jocks.
His last Golden Globes hosting is still one of the best stand ups of all time. I hope he comes back, especially after this years terrible host.
Really? How bad are comedians today if *that* was the performance that won?
And just to clarify, it’s nothing to do with any sort of offence. I don’t offend easily. It was just genuinely shit and incoherent. Felt like an old man going on random distracted rants.
Nominees: Ricky Gervais, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Trevor Noah
Damn, with nominees like that, I’m surprised they even bothered to give an award this year.
Stewart Lee is the best stand up working today. Fight me.
By accepting it, surely that means the next time he takes a shot at the liberal Hollywood elite, it’ll lack credibility? You can’t accept their applause and then have a pop at them.
Say what you want about the Sex Pistols, but when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominated them for membership they sent a letter telling them to fuck off.
Ricky seems to have unleashed an ungodly coalition against him. The religious nutjobs who dislike him because he is an outspoken atheist, and the trans rights activists who are so deeply insecure that they have to hate dissenting voices.
I enjoyed last year’s but not this new special. To be honest, any high-profile award ceremony is just a boys’ club of friends. Means nothing these days.
Ye gods. How bad was the competition?
At this point I think it’s best to remember Mark Kermode’s characterisation of the Golden Globes as, ‘run by a bunch of unaccountable bozos whose favours are bought and sold in shameless fashion and whose influence is as inexplicable as it is irrelevant.’
The “you can’t say anything nowadays” stand up gets awarded one of the most mainstream awards there is.
Speaking as someone who watched all six of the nominated specials:
This isn’t much of an achievement.
Genuinely awful line up for the Globes’ first (and if this is the standard, hopefully last) stand up award
Remember guys, he’s totally censored and saying jokes you ‘just can’t say anymore’
I love classic Gervais but that is a disgrace. Worst part is it’ll only encourage him to make more of the same shit
Gervais has got so ridiculously lazy with his stand up and his ‘fake entitlement’ is now coming across as real ‘Old White Man’ entitlement.
Must have said the word Woke 15,000,000 times in the show (I turned off just over half way through, so this is an estimate).
He was banging on about how selfish everyone is, but then freely indicated he was incredibly selfish himself, but then didn’t even have the self awareness to realise his embarrassing hypocrisy. Bunch of folk clapped along like seals every time he said the ‘woke’ and it was plain awful.
Also he looked ‘Coked Up’ IMO. Had that spaced look, slightly hunched and wide eyed and it would explain his added misplaced ego and arrogance.
Think he won’t care as his new audience will garner him plenty more cash and inflate his ego further
For Armageddon??? It was dog shit?? Even despite all the controversy, it had a grand total of two actual jokes in an hour. Painful to watch, and I’m someone who bought tickets to his last tour.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a single thing this guy has said so really this just confirms my low opinion of awards
He spend a good portion of it just reading other people’s jokes from doesthedogdie.com
Reading comments/questions off the Internet/Twitter and taking them at face value is not only the *laziest* comedy imaginable, it’s basically plagiarism.
I love a bit of dark humour and was listening to a podcast talk about it so I gave it a watch. I lasted 20 mins. The “just you lads bit” was the only bit I laughed at.
He’s on his third multi million dollar Netflix special about being canceled for upsetting woke people. His *third*. He’s front page of Netflix and winning awards. Same with Chapelle, they were 1 and 2 the other day.
Like who the fuck has actually been canceled anyway? A few actual rapists?
My problem with it was it just wasn’t very funny. He’s just trying to be edgy, not funny. Funny comes first.
You can do both, there is plenty of humour in edgy jokes, he’s just not doing it.
I actually used to like his specials, back when he only had two instead of pumping out shit every few months. His bits were far more subtle and patient back then. In *Animals* he would do a whole bit based on some old encyclopedia about homosexuality in the animal kingdom. It relied far more on what I guess is English humor, the sort of polite sarcasm in combination with absurdism that I like in Black Adder and Monty Python.
His recent specials have not been…great. A lot of it is whining about him not being able to say anything these days, and whining about being canceled. Imagine having a popular Netflix special and winning awards for it, all while thinking you are being silenced. American and English stand-up comedy has been dominated by boomer entitlement and humorless self pity, it is excruciating to sit through.
ricky gervias writes another show about him being very smart and everyone else being very dumb and being very #triggered and le offended at his smart correctness
What…I’m a Ricky fan but his latest special was shit. The only controversial thing about it simply isn’t funny.
That special was so boring, I thought he’d be done with the anti woke stuff after a few jokes but it ended up being the whole thing… Just an old man shouting at clouds
Given how his entire schtick, you can’t say what you want or you’ll get “cancelled”, this is rather amusing.
It was crap, this is coming from someone who couldn’t wait to see it following his previous stuff. The man’s spent too much time on twitter with the idiots trying to rile people up that he’s worked it into his whole stand up.
A show titled ‘Armagedon’ I thought, was going to be about climate change, the human race and basically a giant middle finger to those in power who are continuously screwing us over. The show covers nothing of the sort apart from one line about eating less meat. The rest was him moaning about people being woke.
God that’s depressing. I watched 10 minutes of it and turned off because he just struck me as a whinging old man.
Im biased because i dont particularly like ricky. But his standup has been on a steady decline for a while. I dislike chapelle too but his was distinctly better than rickys this year.
So I’m guess that the right wing side of the culture war are going to say that award shows are actually good & right now? How can they argue it’s full of woke people putting through woke works to win?
I like of lot of Ricky’s work, but his Armageddon show was terrible. Lazy, repetitive, derivative joke-writing. I’d score it 2/10.
THAT won? THAT?! All he did was whine for an hour about sjws. Jesus Christ.
I do like Ricky Gervais’ previous stand ups but now he just seems obsessed over social media and its warped him a bit.
“People like me are being silenced by Woke Culture, conservatives are being cancelled”
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Is this sort of thing really relevant to /r/unitedkingdom? It feels like it belongs more in a standup comedy subreddit.
It’s hilarious, reminded me of his old Sunday show routine, he fully deserves this
This tells me a lot over the quality of British stand-up, when the best is an arsehole that is not even funny.
What in the actual fuck? That standup special was TERRIBLE!
I don’t care about the politics in it is just wasn’t remotely funny.
Shit I thought Dave Chapelle’s was shite too but it was orders of magnitude better than Gervais.
That’s honestly insane to me. Golden Globes mean nothing now
Were here no other stand up specials? I fell asleep half way through this, I’m not sure I laughed even once
Small amount of people didn’t like him & bitch about it on twitter: controversy
Excellent I think I’m in a minority of 1 who thought his special was pretty good.
Stand up is in a bad place. It’s either Rogan mates or the usual parade of “you can’t say anything these days, can you?” anti-woke shock jocks.
His last Golden Globes hosting is still one of the best stand ups of all time. I hope he comes back, especially after this years terrible host.
Really? How bad are comedians today if *that* was the performance that won?
And just to clarify, it’s nothing to do with any sort of offence. I don’t offend easily. It was just genuinely shit and incoherent. Felt like an old man going on random distracted rants.
Nominees: Ricky Gervais, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Trevor Noah
Damn, with nominees like that, I’m surprised they even bothered to give an award this year.
Stewart Lee is the best stand up working today. Fight me.
By accepting it, surely that means the next time he takes a shot at the liberal Hollywood elite, it’ll lack credibility? You can’t accept their applause and then have a pop at them.
Say what you want about the Sex Pistols, but when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominated them for membership they sent a letter telling them to fuck off.
Ricky seems to have unleashed an ungodly coalition against him. The religious nutjobs who dislike him because he is an outspoken atheist, and the trans rights activists who are so deeply insecure that they have to hate dissenting voices.
I enjoyed last year’s but not this new special. To be honest, any high-profile award ceremony is just a boys’ club of friends. Means nothing these days.
Ye gods. How bad was the competition?
At this point I think it’s best to remember Mark Kermode’s characterisation of the Golden Globes as, ‘run by a bunch of unaccountable bozos whose favours are bought and sold in shameless fashion and whose influence is as inexplicable as it is irrelevant.’
The “you can’t say anything nowadays” stand up gets awarded one of the most mainstream awards there is.
Speaking as someone who watched all six of the nominated specials:
This isn’t much of an achievement.
Genuinely awful line up for the Globes’ first (and if this is the standard, hopefully last) stand up award
Remember guys, he’s totally censored and saying jokes you ‘just can’t say anymore’
I love classic Gervais but that is a disgrace. Worst part is it’ll only encourage him to make more of the same shit
Gervais has got so ridiculously lazy with his stand up and his ‘fake entitlement’ is now coming across as real ‘Old White Man’ entitlement.
Must have said the word Woke 15,000,000 times in the show (I turned off just over half way through, so this is an estimate).
He was banging on about how selfish everyone is, but then freely indicated he was incredibly selfish himself, but then didn’t even have the self awareness to realise his embarrassing hypocrisy. Bunch of folk clapped along like seals every time he said the ‘woke’ and it was plain awful.
Also he looked ‘Coked Up’ IMO. Had that spaced look, slightly hunched and wide eyed and it would explain his added misplaced ego and arrogance.
Think he won’t care as his new audience will garner him plenty more cash and inflate his ego further
For Armageddon??? It was dog shit?? Even despite all the controversy, it had a grand total of two actual jokes in an hour. Painful to watch, and I’m someone who bought tickets to his last tour.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a single thing this guy has said so really this just confirms my low opinion of awards
He spend a good portion of it just reading other people’s jokes from doesthedogdie.com
Reading comments/questions off the Internet/Twitter and taking them at face value is not only the *laziest* comedy imaginable, it’s basically plagiarism.
I love a bit of dark humour and was listening to a podcast talk about it so I gave it a watch. I lasted 20 mins. The “just you lads bit” was the only bit I laughed at.
He’s on his third multi million dollar Netflix special about being canceled for upsetting woke people. His *third*. He’s front page of Netflix and winning awards. Same with Chapelle, they were 1 and 2 the other day.
Like who the fuck has actually been canceled anyway? A few actual rapists?
My problem with it was it just wasn’t very funny. He’s just trying to be edgy, not funny. Funny comes first.
You can do both, there is plenty of humour in edgy jokes, he’s just not doing it.
I actually used to like his specials, back when he only had two instead of pumping out shit every few months. His bits were far more subtle and patient back then. In *Animals* he would do a whole bit based on some old encyclopedia about homosexuality in the animal kingdom. It relied far more on what I guess is English humor, the sort of polite sarcasm in combination with absurdism that I like in Black Adder and Monty Python.
His recent specials have not been…great. A lot of it is whining about him not being able to say anything these days, and whining about being canceled. Imagine having a popular Netflix special and winning awards for it, all while thinking you are being silenced. American and English stand-up comedy has been dominated by boomer entitlement and humorless self pity, it is excruciating to sit through.
ricky gervias writes another show about him being very smart and everyone else being very dumb and being very #triggered and le offended at his smart correctness
What…I’m a Ricky fan but his latest special was shit. The only controversial thing about it simply isn’t funny.
That special was so boring, I thought he’d be done with the anti woke stuff after a few jokes but it ended up being the whole thing… Just an old man shouting at clouds
Given how his entire schtick, you can’t say what you want or you’ll get “cancelled”, this is rather amusing.
It was crap, this is coming from someone who couldn’t wait to see it following his previous stuff. The man’s spent too much time on twitter with the idiots trying to rile people up that he’s worked it into his whole stand up.
A show titled ‘Armagedon’ I thought, was going to be about climate change, the human race and basically a giant middle finger to those in power who are continuously screwing us over. The show covers nothing of the sort apart from one line about eating less meat. The rest was him moaning about people being woke.
God that’s depressing. I watched 10 minutes of it and turned off because he just struck me as a whinging old man.
Im biased because i dont particularly like ricky. But his standup has been on a steady decline for a while. I dislike chapelle too but his was distinctly better than rickys this year.
So I’m guess that the right wing side of the culture war are going to say that award shows are actually good & right now? How can they argue it’s full of woke people putting through woke works to win?
I like of lot of Ricky’s work, but his Armageddon show was terrible. Lazy, repetitive, derivative joke-writing. I’d score it 2/10.
THAT won? THAT?! All he did was whine for an hour about sjws. Jesus Christ.
I do like Ricky Gervais’ previous stand ups but now he just seems obsessed over social media and its warped him a bit.
“People like me are being silenced by Woke Culture, conservatives are being cancelled”