The comic, 60, who has been embroiled in controversy throughout his career, kicks off the show with a warning about irony as he describes the concept of comedy to the audience as 'basically a bloke talking', before purposely failing to recall any 'funny female comedians'. Comedian Ricky Gervais has hit back at critics after Twitter's 'woke brigade' turned on the comic for mocking cancel culture with jokes about transgender people, Adolf Hitler and AIDS in his new 'SuperNature' Netflix special.
