The One Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cMost offence comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target. So it starts, they go, \u2018What\u2019s he gonna say?\u2019 I tell the joke. Phew. They laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s like a parachute jump. It\u2019s scary, but then you land and it\u2019s all OK. And I think that\u2019s what comedy is for, getting us over taboo subjects. They\u2019re not scary anymore. So I deal with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
While being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2025, Gervais claimed a victory over cancel culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few weird years of cancel culture \u2013 people telling you what you can and can’t laugh at or talk about \u2013 but we pushed back and we won until the next time,\u201d he told a crowd gathered on the streets of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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