Frankie Boyle calls Ricky Gervais ‘lazy’ for trans people jokes: ‘I would like him to have the same respect for trans people as he has for animals’
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During the conversation, Theroux referenced Boyle’s TV comedy special Excited For You to See and Hate This, in which he took a swipe at fellow comedian Ricky Gervais over his jokes about trans people. In the special, Boyle referenced Gervais’s own bit in his 2018 Netflix special Humanity, where he repeated Caitlyn Jenner’s dead name then suggested a trans person was like him “self-identifying as a chimpanzee”. “My genuine reaction was, it’s not that much weirder than Ricky Gervais saying that he’s a stand-up comedian,” Boyle said in his TV special. It’s f***ing political correctness gone mad!” “I thought his routine about trans people was very lazy,” Boyle told Theroux.
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