Ricky Gervais Has Slammed cancel Culture And Said His Hit TV Show The Office Would Struggle To Air Today Due To Online outrage Mobs

Ricky Gervais has slammed 'cancel culture' and said his hit TV show The Office would struggle to air today due to online 'outrage mobs'.
The comedian and actor, 59, who played David Brent in the [/news/bbc/index.html BBC] mockumentary, said broadcasters are now too afraid to take risks.
The programme, set at a paper firm in Slough, Berkshire, sees the character frequently insult minorities as he grapples with political correctness.
Yet The Office, which aired from 2001 to 2002, won numerous [/tvshowbiz/baftas/index.html Baftas] and [/tvshowbiz/golden_globes/index.html Golden Globes] and is widely seen as one of the best British comedies ever made.
Gervais said viewers see Brent as a joke and are not laughing with him, but he fears any sense of irony is lost on audiences today.
The comedian and actor, 59, who played David Brent (pictured) in the BBC mockumentary, said broadcasters are now too afraid to take risks
Gervais (pictured hosting the Golden Globes this year) said viewers see Brent as a joke and thuê xe ô tô hà nội are not laughing with him, but he is worried any sense of irony is lost on audiences today
He told [ ]: 'Now [The Office] would suffer because people would take things literally.

There are these outrage mobs who take things out of context.
'This was a show about everything — it was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that people fear to even be discussed or talked about now, in case they say the wrong thing and they are cancelled.'
His comments came on the 19th anniversary of The Office, which was also turned into a Christmas special in 2003 and a 2016 film spin off David Brent: Life on the Road.
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