ricky gervais

Ricky Gervais

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.”

Ricky Gervais, paraphrased: “Shut up.”


I hate Ricky Gervais. The main reason why is too painful to go into on a fairly throwaway post but I hate him so much it hurts. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything” but it’s okay for him to lecture people whose kin are being disappeared off the streets. Okay for him knowing his existence is not political. Okay for him to give political speeches, because giving a speech about how people of colour shouldn’t talk ‘politics’ is as political as you can get. I don’t have a pithy comment to end this with, I just hate him, so fucking much.

(Inspired by this and the various responses to it.)

Things Ricky Gervais has done:

-Called a disabled woman a ‘freak’ (and more) to her face

-Written many, many jokes and shows where the punchline is ‘disabled people are fucking hilarious’ (seriously, it’s basically his thing)

-Enthusiastically used the word ‘mong’ on Twitter as an insult; would not stop

-Been generally an arrogant, cruel, ableist douchefuck

Things Ricky Gervais has not done:

-Contributed anything at all to actual science

the end.