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Thinks he is so smart but


He is really no different than the celebs he criticizes. Just another celeb with a big ego thinking they are smarter than everybody else.

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It always does strike me as weird whenever he makes fun of “Hollywood elites” for being out of touch virtue signalers, when he himself is a wealthy and privileged celebrity who has also used his platform to preach about social issues, particularly regarding stuff like animal rights. I mean, I’m not saying he’s wrong about celebrities being out of touch rich people, but what makes him any different from the rest of them? Does making fun of other people suddenly give you a pass for being guilty of some of the same things they’re guilty of?

Also, I think it’s pretty ironic how he’s repeatedly made jokes about how people in Hollywood are a bunch of sexual predators who like to fuck kids, when he idolizes David Bowie. Is he not aware about all the underage groupies Bowie slept with?

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I agree. It's like he thinks if he attacks the elite that all us regular joe's will somehow not notice he is exactly the same. The way he carries on about religion is boring too, I am not religious but he really doesn't make as much sense as he thinks he does.

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What doesn’t make sense about his dislike and comments on religion?

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He mentioned that if you were to destroy all the religious books and all the science books and then 1000 years later re-write them the science ones would remain the same whereas the religious ones would be different.

Although the religious ones would probably be different, I think the science in many cases would change as well. They are always discovering new things, finding out that previous theories were incorrect (ahem the world is flat) etc. I think he came across as science zealot, wanting to believe that no matter what science was irrefutable.

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That’s true, science is always changing with new information. That’s what I like about science as opposed to religion, science allows itself to be wrong and change.

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There's an old expression: "do as I say, not as I do".

Gervais may not live by his word, but at least he's doing some good by pointing out the hypocrisy.

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Being a hypocrite who calls other people hypocrites is hardly doing any good. If Gervais really wanted to do some good, he would stop worshipping David Bowie, and donate the majority of his net worth to charity.

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Sure it does. Good advice given is good even if the giver doesn't take it himself.

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I don't find him as endearing and funny as other British humorists and comedians.

He's just as much part of the Elites that he chides to make him look like an outsider but he's very much an insider.

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