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🤷‍♂️ “I Don’t Care”— Ricky Gervais on People Being Easily Offended In a recent chat with Romesh Ranganathan on BBC Radio 2, Ricky Gervais delivered his signature no-nonsense take on offense culture, cancel culture, and why he’s done entertaining it. Gervais made it crystal clear: he doesn’t tell people not to be offended, he simply doesn’t care if they are. Here’s what he had to say: “I don’t tell people not to be offended, I tell them I don’t care if they are. Be offended if you want. It makes it funnier for me.” “You can’t help what you’re offended by, but don’t expect me to care, is what I say.” “It’s a myth that I go out to offend. I never go out to offend. I just know that it’s probably gonna happen because everyone’s different.” “There’s nothing you can say, particularly anything that’s mildly interesting, or contentious, or your viewpoint that someone, somewhere won’t find offensive.” “And times have changed. Twenty years ago, if someone said ‘I was offended by that,’ I probably would go, ‘Why?’ Now I go, ‘Yeah, I know you are. Everyone is.’” “I’ve dealt with it too much, actually. I think the last couple of tours, I have dealt with cancel culture and free speech, because I felt I had to. Now I don’t have to anymore.” “Now I’m ignoring it all. I shouldn’t even bring it into the room.” “Those people there who have paid hundreds of pounds, they’re not offended. I can play to a million people, not one complaint. As soon as it goes on Netflix, 50 million people… of course there’s going to be someone who doesn’t like it! It’s too late. I’ve been paid.” Spot on, Ricky. In a world where people seem offended by everything, Gervais reminds us there’s no point bending over backwards trying to please everyone. Focus on the audience that shows up, laughs, and actually wants to hear what you have to say. The rest? They can be offended, he simply doesn’t care. And honestly? Neither should we.

Cool Val. I stand by it. A month ago before everything with Joleen, Valhalla, Loren and others.. I said that in a stream in direct response to Aidan saying he hated her show 10 times and that no man would watch it. I think a thousand people listen to her every morning. They would be happy to listen to her talk about (life, kids, trauma, joy, periods, marriage etc. ) WITHOUT her talking about other people - which is what I said. The truth is: Jess would probably be at 15k subs today if she didn’t.. but things changed, relationships changed, and she chose to focus on that a LOT and so did many others. We can play Monday Morning QB and have hindsight but that is what happened. It appears she is still keeping a lot of people’s attention …. including yours.