Ricky Gervais HOPES next stand-up show 'Armageddon' will have jokes that get him canceled
Ricky Gervais is starting a new stand-up show called Armageddon and has announced to his fans that he wants to go all-in into the box of controversies and get canceled. The actor even said that he is willing to risk his future career prospects with the show and he has no problem talking about all kinds of controversial topics on the show.
'I'm treating it like it's my last one ever. It won't be, but I want to put everything into it. I want to try and get canceled. No, I just want to go all-out there. It's about the end of the world and how we're going to destroy ourselves for lots of reasons, whether it's media stupidity, or the actual end of the world,' Gervais recently told the DailyMail UK. The comedian's new show comes fresh off the success of his dark comedy on Netflix titled 'After Life'. Its seasons 1 and 2 were well received and now there is even a Season 3.
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Gervais, who gained a lot of fame from his role in The Office, told WSJ Magazine in an interview that he believes nothing is supposed to be off-limits in comedy. "There's no subject you shouldn't joke about. It depends on the joke. As a journalist, there's nothing you wouldn't write about. It depends on your angle, right? I think a lot of this pious offense comes from people mistaking the target of the joke with the subject," he told WSJ Magazine, adding "You can joke about anything, but it depends on what the actual target is. If you use irony and people see that at face value and think you're saying one thing but you're actually saying the opposite."
Gervais also talked about how excited he had been working with Netflix for 'After Life' but also revealed that he had turned down the opportunity to do a fourth season of the show. The 60-year-old actor said he did this in order to focus on his new project which he has been a lot of time on lately. He also told that his co-stars could go ahead and start their own spin-off seasons to reprise their roles.
The frequent Golden Globes host had shared back in 2020 that he wasn't "nasty" and "uncaring," and that it was all part of a character. Gervais had earned the public's appreciation when he slammed celebrities who were complaining about the lockdown from their million-dollar mansions while frontline health workers were putting in 14-hour shifts while placing their lives at risk. He had also caused quite the furor while hosting the Golden Globes in January 2020 when he criticized those who used the ceremony as a platform to make political statements, took a jab at Felicity Huffman's prison sentence, and even compared Leonardo DiCaprio's dating habits to that of Prince Andrew.