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Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 8:14 am
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Would you like to win one one day?
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 8:25 am
As long as it's not posthumous.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 9:35 am
Good for him. Funny and intelligent guy. He deserves it.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 9:37 am
I know he can rub some people the wrong way, but when you get past the jokes I think most of what he says is pretty on point.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 2:57 pm
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(September 5, 2019 at 8:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
Would you like to win one one day?
Why? He's an absolute knobhead.
(September 5, 2019 at 9:37 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I know he can rub some people the wrong way, but when you get past the jokes I think most of what he says is pretty on point.
No, what you get when you get past the "jokes" is a deeply offensive and unpleasant man, like your loudly racist uncle unpleasant.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 3:41 pm
(September 5, 2019 at 2:57 pm)Nomad Wrote: (September 5, 2019 at 8:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
Would you like to win one one day?
Why? He's an absolute knobhead.
(September 5, 2019 at 9:37 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I know he can rub some people the wrong way, but when you get past the jokes I think most of what he says is pretty on point.
No, what you get when you get past the "jokes" is a deeply offensive and unpleasant man, like your loudly racist uncle unpleasant.
*Shrug* I disagree.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Ricky Gervais is very vocal about his atheism, which I appreciate. As far as offensive... People do understand what comedy is, right?
Not to mention, he's fucking hilarious.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 5, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Happy for Gervais, though he's not my cup of tea as a performer. I was VERY happy when Stephen Fry won it last year.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 6, 2019 at 2:39 pm
(September 5, 2019 at 4:35 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Ricky Gervais is very vocal about his atheism, which I appreciate. As far as offensive... People do understand what comedy is, right?
Not to mention, he's fucking hilarious.
Not talking about his comedy, if it were just that I'd shrug my shoulders and say "he's in the wrong profession" and then ignore him. It's the vile comments he's made about downs syndrome people, women and lots of others outside of comedy which have turned me into actively hating him.
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RE: Ricky Gervais won Dawkins award this year
September 6, 2019 at 2:46 pm
(September 6, 2019 at 2:39 pm)Nomad Wrote: (September 5, 2019 at 4:35 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Ricky Gervais is very vocal about his atheism, which I appreciate. As far as offensive... People do understand what comedy is, right?
Not to mention, he's fucking hilarious.
Not talking about his comedy, if it were just that I'd shrug my shoulders and say "he's in the wrong profession" and then ignore him. It's the vile comments he's made about downs syndrome people, women and lots of others outside of comedy which have turned me into actively hating him.
Are you sure that wasn't part of the comedy? Just because he doesn't say them on a stage doesn't mean they aren't jokes. What sort of things do you think Ricky believes about people with downs syndrome and women?
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