Ricky Gervais might have regretted skipping the Golden Globes, as his absence left the right alternative for Wanda Sykes to tear into his comedy.

Regardless of his menace final yr to not maintain again if he acquired the gig, Gervais was not the host of this yr’s star-studded night; he didn’t even attend.

His earlier flip left the well-known viewers cringing and wincing together with his cancellable gags, particularly after a reference to Jeffrey Epstein.

This yr, American comedian Nikki Glaser took on internet hosting duties, however that doesn’t imply Gervais’ controversial comedy was forgotten.

The Workplace star gained for finest stand-up comedy efficiency on TV, which was being offered by actress Sykes, so she acquired to settle for Gervais’ award for him.

‘Shoutout to the Golden Globes for having me,’ the Curb Your Enthusiasm star stated. ‘ there’s some folks p**sed off {that a} queer Black lady is up right here doing the job of two mediocre white guys.’

Turning her signature sharp tongue in direction of Gervais, she quipped: ‘I really like you for not being right here. In the event you win, I get to just accept the award in your behalf, and also you’re going to thank God and the trans neighborhood.’

Her jab comes after the Derek actor was accused of creating transphobic jokes about Caitlyn Jenner whereas internet hosting the Globes in 2016.

Whereas on stage, he deadnamed Jenner (utilizing her pre-transition identify) however later defended himself, saying it was not a joke about her being trans.

In Humanity, he devoted quarter-hour to discussing the previous Olympian, wherein he deadnamed her an extra 15 occasions, in accordance with Pink Information.

Throughout the identical routine, he then in contrast gender self-identification to eager to be a ‘chimp’, saying he was ‘chimp pre-op’ and needed to go by the identify ‘Bobo’.

Since then, he has confronted continued criticism for his ‘anti-woke’ comedy routines, one in all which entails suggesting trans ladies assault cisgender ladies in loos – a transphobic speaking level.

In Netflix particular Particular Nature, which aired in 2022, he declared: ‘I really like the brand new ladies. They’re nice, aren’t they? The brand new ones we’ve been seeing these days. Those with beards and cocks.’

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He then added that he ‘helps trans rights,’ stating ‘I help all human rights and trans rights are human rights,” earlier than falling again into dangerous stereotypes and asking: ‘However meet me midway, women. Lose the cock. That’s all I’m saying.’

In 2023, over 12,000 folks signed a petition calling for Netflix to axe his comedy particular Armageddon earlier than it was even launched, after a teaser clip confirmed him making gags about terminally in poor health youngsters and utilizing the R-slur.

Instantly after the offensive joke, he instructed the viewers of the present: ‘These are all jokes, all proper? I don’t even use that phrase in actual life, the R-word. … I’m enjoying a task.’

He has repeatedly defended his comedy as ‘simply jokes’, most lately in an interview with BBC This Cultural Life.

‘I’ve a proper to speak about these issues,’ he stated. ‘And there are jokes I actually stand by. I can’t look again and say, “Oh, sorry about that, I stated that once I was solely 50.”‘

Gervais continued: ‘As you do get extra progressive, possibly, and milder and alter, what normally occurs is, the belongings you used to do look worse.

‘What I do is I try to get extra offensive, so once I look again, I’m going “aw wasn’t I sort once I was 45”.’

He then reassured the interviewer that that too ‘was a joke’.

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