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Courage to Be Honest - On Stage with Ricky Gervais

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Perniciousness of Jokes

Some of it was rebellion against the first wave of political correctness. It's another form of shutting you down, putting the... Suffix phobia on the end of some things. Most offence is taken when people mistake the subject of a joke with a target. I try and make my jokes bulletproof for 10 years' time - which is a problem. But I still don't think humour is exempt from those things.

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