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Comedy in the era of Twitter outrage: An interview with Ricky Gervais

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

There’s a moment in Ricky Gervais’s 2018 Netflix stand-up show Humanity when he talks about buying a first-class air ticket, only to be informed that nuts would not be served on board due to a fellow passenger’s serious allergy. ‘I was fuming,’ he says. ‘If being near a nut kills you, do we really want that in the gene pool? I’ve never wanted nuts more.

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