Ricky Gervais Says What Most People Think

A new Netflix special causing a stir gives British comic Ricky Gervais a bare stage and an hour and 19 minutes to say whatever the heck he wants. Much of it is funny, while some of it is hard to take. In fact, I had to turn it off halfway through because some content concerning cats was a bit too graphic for my tastes.

But the bit he does before that about transgenders is hysterical, and the appreciative audience thought so too. This of course is the part that's making the news, since it is decidedly not woke. Despite that, it's how most people feel in their hearts, not counting the small percent who call themselves transgender or aspire to be so, and maybe their parents.

Ricky mocks the belief that women can have penises. He mocks men in dresses using women's public bathrooms. He mocks pronouns, as if by calling a man "she" or "her" makes everything just fine. He points out all the inane things that make up the whole transgender "movement," and somehow gets away with it. Or he has so far; only time will tell.

Surely George Carlin, Joan Rivers and Don Rickles are laughing in Heaven. They're better off there, since here on Earth they would definitely all be cancelled.