Ricky Gervais Refuses to ‘Shut Up’

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ricky Gervais joins this week’s show from home in London to talk about his darkly funny and surprisingly moving Netflix series ‘After Life,’ which just got picked up for a third season. The comedian explains how he ended up creating a show about grief and shares his strong opinions about political correctness in comedy, free speech and cancel culture. Plus, Ricky looks back at his most controversial Golden Globes jokes and reveals what it was like to work with the late David Bowie on ‘Extras,’ Larry David on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	If there wasn't a global pandemic going on, would Ricky Jervais ever have agreed to be on this podcast?
0:13.3	We may never know.
0:15.1	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and on today's episode of The Last Laugh,
0:19.4	I talked to the comedic mind behind The Office, extras, and on today's episode of The Last Laugh, I talked to the comedic mind behind the
0:21.8	office, extras, and most recently, afterlife. As Ricky tells me on this week's show from his
0:28.8	home in London, he's been more available than ever during quarantine, mostly because he doesn't
0:34.4	have to leave the house or put on actual pants.
0:40.7	He just has to sit in his trophy-filled office and talk.
0:44.5	And as always, he has a lot to say.
0:49.2	Ricky and I get into all of the thorny issues he loves to talk about,
0:51.0	including political correctness in comedy,
0:54.7	and the Caitlin Jenner jokes that almost got him canceled a few years back. All of these ideas are present in afterlife, his surprisingly moving Netflix series that just
1:01.5	got picked up for a third season. Ricky didn't set out to make a show about grief. He just wanted to
1:07.9	tell a story about a guy who stopped caring about what people thought of him.
1:11.8	He ended up with the character of Tony,
1:13.9	who starts saying whatever he wants to complete strangers after his wife dies of cancer.
1:19.8	Come here, good girl.
1:22.5	Your dog should be on a lead.
1:24.9	What?
1:25.3	Dog should be on a lead.
1:26.5	Can't you read the park's for everyone?
1:28.5	Oh, right. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Come here, girl. Come here.
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