SuperNature Ricky Gervais

[dowie]

Watched this last night and it was pretty good, it's had a bit of controversy (some of which has been covered in the press) but this isn't the thread for that. He even starts off the special with a bit of sexism and explains that he'll be making use of irony... not that some critics will pay much attention to that, religion is an obvious recurring target for Gervais as are current woke ideological issues such as obesity and self ID. Anyway here's a (family/forum-friendly) bit from the intro:

Perhaps whether you'll like it or not will depend on whether your views tend to align more with the critics or with general audiences:

Here are some other critics and audience scores of other recent big Netflix Comedy specials for comparison:

 

[dowie]

Went to see Stewart Lee's Tornado/********* stand up a couple of weeks back, he does an extended bit on the concept of stand up comedians going on about not being able to talk about the controversial things they then go on spend an hour talking about, using Ricky Gervais as an prime example.

I do like Stuart Lee but that's a bit hack of him and the sort of thing you'd expect from the likes of Nish Kumar. I've not seen Gervais complain about not being able to talk about certain things, rather his attitude has generally tended to be the opposite of that; he'll address controversial topics regardless:

 

[dowie]

He also described Ricky Gervais' sitcom After Life as a 9 hour crying ****.

That's good

I remember when he started doing bits about James Cordon, in part just because Cordon kept saying how much he liked Stuart Lee so Lee thought the funniest reaction would be for him to just hate Cordon.