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Ricky Gervais

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

CHAPTER

The Problem With Jokes

I've always tried to make my jokes bulletproof. Now the people that offended at anything have made that meaningless. It's like now people are going back and trying to get people cancelled for ten-year-old tweets. That doesn't count. You know, John Wayne was cancelled 40 years after his death. For not being woken up. He's very upset about it. I try and turn the spotlight on me as well when I do those things. But I think people, people want a war. They want a feud. Yeah. That's what they want. And I realized, oh, that's the media. You've got to warm things up to make things happen.

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