{"id":1489961,"date":"2022-05-24T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489961"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:15:49","slug":"i-hope-netflix-has-pre-ordered-the-fainting-couches-ricky-gervais-comedy-special-hits-netflix-outrage-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-hope-netflix-has-pre-ordered-the-fainting-couches-ricky-gervais-comedy-special-hits-netflix-outrage-ensues\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Hope Netflix Has Pre-Ordered The Fainting Couches\u2019: Ricky Gervais Comedy Special Hits Netflix, Outrage Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-hope-netflix-has-pre-ordered-the-fainting-couches-ricky-gervais-comedy-special-hits-netflix-outrage-ensues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Comedian Ricky Gervais\u2019 new comedy special \u201cSuper Nature\u201d had only been streaming on Netflix for a few hours when the outrage and pearl-clutching began.<\/p>\n<p>Several people warned before the special even dropped that it was likely to trigger a response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRicky Gervais is going to make a bunch of funny jokes in his new special. I hope Netflix has pre-ordered the fainting couches,\u201d @AGHamilton29 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1529094746794237952\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Eoin Higgins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EoinHiggins_\/status\/1528134323496538114\">warned<\/a>, \u201cRicky Gervais has a new comedy special coming out Tuesday. Word is that Netflix sat on it for months because of how virulently transphobic it is\u2014worse than Chappelle\u2014but are releasing it anyway for fear of right-wing backlash \u2026 It\u2019s a \u2018damned if you do damned if you don\u2019t\u2019 equation in their mind, so they\u2019re\u2026 going to placate the bigots. Okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gervais <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ricky-gervais-reveals-what-he-would-have-said-if-they-let-him-host-the-oscars\/\">took no prisoners<\/a>, going right for the audience even as he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ricky-gervais-unloads-on-transgender-mania-in-nsfw-rant\/\">took the stage<\/a> and telling them to \u201cshut the f*** up\u201d and stop \u201cwhooping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m filming this, shut up, you c****,\u201d he said to uproarious laughter.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickygervais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rickygervais<\/a> new stand-up special Supernature is now streaming!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XOIp8BaicG\">pic.twitter.com\/XOIp8BaicG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NetflixIsAJoke\/status\/1529131544136261632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there, Gervais left no woke stone unturned \u2014 addressing cancel culture and the idea of \u201cwoke comedy\u201d \u2014 but his jokes about trans people provoked a wave of backlash on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen,\u201d Gervais complained in exaggerated tones. \u201cI mean, the old-fashioned ones. The old-fashioned women. Oh God! You know, the ones with wombs. Those f***ing dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is still hope.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ORFRl7ozUC\">pic.twitter.com\/ORFRl7ozUC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laurence Fox \u271d\ufe0f \ud83d\ude9b (@LozzaFox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LozzaFox\/status\/1529035780131278848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that in today\u2019s culture, one of the worst things a person could say was, \u201cWomen don\u2019t have penises\u201d \u2014 but that the cancel culture trend of digging up a person\u2019s decades-old tweets would not be a problem in that particular case, since ten years ago no one tweeted \u201cwomen don\u2019t have penises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His explanation for that was simple: \u201cWe didn\u2019t think we f***ing had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pink News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2022\/05\/24\/ricky-gervais-supernature-netflix-trans\/\">referred to the special<\/a> in its entirety as \u201cnothing more than an anti-trans garbage fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ricky Gervais&#8217; new Netflix special is nothing more than an anti-trans garbage fire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ijRXBaX9jE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ijRXBaX9jE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PinkNews (@PinkNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PinkNews\/status\/1529037117485158402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRicky Gervais has a new stand up show out on Netflix today. 5 minutes in and he\u2019s making jokes about trans women attacking &#038; raping people in public bathrooms. To him we exist only as a punchline, a threat, something less than human,\u201d @discount_Ripley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/discount_Ripley\/status\/1529026025216266240\">tweeted<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be stupid to think re-peddling the most tired, ignorant, Trump-cult fuelled [sic] transphobic crap is edgy. Ricky Gervais, 40 years into his career, vomitting [sic] up toxic crap to make money from failing @netflix is little different to a Jim Davidson special for thick bigots,\u201d Will Black <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillBlackWriter\/status\/1529038476242558976\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A review from The Independent said that the special \u201cdeals in cheap jokes and humiliating trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ricky Gervais: SuperNature deals in cheap jokes and humiliating trans people \u2013 review \u2b50\u2b50 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EdJciZlWrF\">https:\/\/t.co\/EdJciZlWrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Independent (@Independent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Independent\/status\/1528977426562301952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gervais said that the response had already been so overwhelming that the streaming service had ordered his next stand-up special, titled \u201cArmageddon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#SuperNature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Ricky Gervais\u2019 new comedy special \u201cSuper Nature\u201d had only been streaming on Netflix for a few hours when the outrage and pearl-clutching began. Several people warned before the special even dropped that it was likely to trigger a response. \u201cRicky Gervais is going to make a bunch of funny jokes in his new special. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1490002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}