“Hanks, of course, plays Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ manager/parasite, who Luhrmann’s screenplay—which arrives with a whole forest of names attached to it in the film’s credits—places at the center of Elvis’ story, for some reason.”

Being inclusive of both views is not forcing people to have abortions. Leave the people who want to have them alone.

I mean it’s an image right? Just change the look of the ape enough to continue the show.

Has this ever been tested in court?

Good. He deserves it for messing with this scam.

I used to have some respect for Seth Green, Now I’m just disappointed...and a little smug about this tweet back and forth with him.

Oh no, a really dumb idea for a show has been scuttled by the theft of a really dumb digital object from a really dumb person. Whatever will we do?

I truly don’t understand what he means by that statement. On top of that, what’s wild to me is he literally has a monkey IP he’s developed for decades: Stoopid Monkey... his fucking production company mascot.

“The show may move forward in the unlikely event that Green’s NFTs are returned to him, but for now whoever stole them owns the usage rights due to the completely absurd way that NFTs and the blockchain are designed to work.”

No, the discourse is that he should either stop being such an asshole or Netflix shouldn’t be funding this shit, neither of which is the same as silencing him. It’s entirely valid free speech to ask someone to change their behavior (it is, in fact, the same thing Gervais is doing in his bit and so he is not immune…

AV Club, Jez and Kotaku want these comments on their websites to drive up comment engagement, that’s why they immediately fall over themselves to ungrey anyone shouting hate speech.

Language and word meanings shift over time. I’m sorry if you’re just now learning this.

It would be nice to not be the butt end of a joke for at least one Netflix comedy special while my state desperately tries to make me not real.  It gets a little tiring.

I’m just gonna chime in here to say go fuck yourself.

It is. The next time you pull your head out of your ass for air, take a look around.

“You’re so brave btw. And important.”

Ricky Gervais can say what he likes, we have the right to oppose it or JUST TURN THE CHANNEL!

Yeah, the whole “comedians are supposed to challenge social norms through humor and wit” thing doesn’t really apply when they’re just reinforcing social norms through dull observations that were already well established back in the 70s. “Trans women have COCKS” and “an [x] that identifies as a [y]” are things a drunk…

I guarantee Ricky Gervais stays running from Eddie Izzard’s casual rhetorical iron sights. For comfort, I just replay video of Garry Shandling telling him he’s an unfunny douche and staring blankly at him on his own show.

You and I both know that he doesn’t support trans rights - based on your opinions elsewhere in this comment section, you wouldn’t be arguing for him so vociferously if you thought he did. Yes, people often make jokes about things they don’t personally believe, but if Gervais really did believe in trans rights, he…