Just watching the trailer and hearing everyone say “ToronTo”, including supposed born and raised Torontonian Woody Harrelson breaks my ability to believe the movie. Anyone born in Toronto would pronounce it “Trono” (hell, it even sounds like Ch-ron-o the way a lot of people say it!)

And that was before the trans stuff! He was boring and less of a joke teller already, the trans stuff just made it worse.

He’s been shit longer than that, but it wasn’t broadcast. I remember the shows  when he started doing standup again and people online saying he was rambling and meandering and not funny, and he’d walk off stage early if the crowd wasn’t to his liking. 

I never tried his first Netflix series, the one where the picture made it look like something out of “Tropic Thunder”...Gentle Jack I think it was called. Just Ricky twisting his face to look mentally challenged or something. “Nope, don’t need to see whatever that schlock is”.

Does anyone find “OK, let me stop for 10 minutes to whine about Trans people saying I shouldn’t attack them and why that’s cancel culture” funny?

“gotta update my material...I got it...I changed the bible’s wikipedia entry to read fiction! That’s it, hilarious!”

to me he didn’t seem angry, he just seemed unfocussed, and with nothing to say. The guy who made me laugh hysterically with the “grape drink...it’s purple” 15 years before that didn’t leave me with more than a smirk in the first special. He seemed bored. And i was even more bored then him.

Yeah, that’s exactly it. I’m sure a trans person could take a joke that was well made, but Chappelle, or Gervais aren’t telling those jokes. They are stopping the comedy to whine about trans people not appreciating them or some such nonsense. Where’s the actual joke?

I haven’t watched any of his recent specials where he goes off on trans people. Honestly, he lost me at his first netflix special, which was just not funny in the most boring way. And he kept rubbing his stomach during the whole set. They released 2 specials at once, i didn’t even bother with the second.

Ricky Gervais has been performing the same set, releasing the same special, for going on 20 years now it feels like. I guess he’s added more trans stuff the past 5 years, but other than that, he’s very consistent...consistent in that he tells the same damn jokes and expects everyone to think he’s still funny. 

By original stories, I don’t mean “Original star wars stories”. I mean, their original content, totally unrelated to Marvel or Star Wars. I think Johnson is great (recently rewatched the Brothers Bloom and still love that one). I’d rather he make his own thing than play in the Disney/Marvel/Star Wars sandbox.

I’d rather Disney let Waititi and Rian Johnson go crazy with their own original stories. Universal or someone else should back a brinks truck up to them and say “go wild”. I’m tired of this Disney retread stuff. 

Well, they pay Chapel like $20M each special, so they are actually quite expensive!

Agreed (except for Okja...I loved it!). 

I’m sure they aren’t going to cut back on vanity comedy specials where we hear Ricky Gervais say the same joke he’s been telling for the past 2 decades. “more jokes about being an atheist and why trans people suck? Give him $20M right away!!!”

I feel like the jokes will soon turn into “memestock” bullshit where people raise $100M and give it to Sony to make the movie. 

Or send her into the woods to become a lumberjack?

The show got progressively worse every season. By season 4,  it was outright bad. So the end isn’t a shock if you watch it under that mindframe.

Pam’s character arc in this season was the only thing that made a lick of sense. Her and Konstantin’s little self contained story worked, and his death, and her subsequent leaving the life were perfect capstones to it. Everything else this season...not so much.

I’d complain about the entire last season more than just a death at the end (although it’s hilarious how it ends with Eve yelling in the water for like 2 seconds and then that’s the end of the show. “uh...that’s it?”)