{"id":65911,"date":"2023-12-23T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2038600"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:15:01","slug":"why-the-left-wants-to-silence-ricky-gervais-matt-rife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/why-the-left-wants-to-silence-ricky-gervais-matt-rife\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Left Wants to Silence Ricky Gervais, Matt Rife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ricky Gervais is in trouble. Again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Comedy Police pulled the Brit over this month for telling more inappropriate jokes. Seems the &#8220;Office&#8221; alum shared a teaser for his new Netflix special &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; on social media that didn&#8217;t go over well in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p>The material in question?<\/p>\n<p>He referenced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/ricky-gervais-netflix-armageddon-special-cancer-disability-joke-criticism-1235767907\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">real-world contributions to the Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing video messages recently for terminally ill children \u2014 and only if they request it, obviously. I didn\u2019t burst into hospitals and go, \u2018Wake up baldy!\u2019 Watch me twerking on TikTok,&#8217;\u201d he said. He adds that Make-A-Wish is \u201cgreat, and they give these dying kids they\u2019re like one wish. If it\u2019s me, I always say yes, and I always start the video the same way. I go, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you wish to get better? What, are you f***ing r\u2014\u2014 as well?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some quick reactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. It&#8217;s a joke.<\/li>\n<li>B. Gervais often plays an amoral jerk on stage.<\/li>\n<li>C. Comedians don&#8217;t set laws or otherwise impact the Body Politic.<\/li>\n<li>D. Being nice isn&#8217;t always funny.<\/li>\n<li>E. The routine won&#8217;t land well with parents of terminally ill children.<\/li>\n<li>F. Have his critics similarly donated time and energy to Make-A-Wish?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comedians have played various roles on stage for decades. Andrew &#8220;Dice&#8221; Clay became a late &#8217;80s sensation for channeling the ultimate alpha male, the &#8220;Diceman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So did Judy Tenuta, Emo Phillips and many more. &#8220;Bobcat&#8221; Goldthwait doesn&#8217;t talk like that in real life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/ricky-gervais-matt-rife-woke-censorship\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FeDT2qyiHJSc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Gaffigan once echoed his critics, via a high-pitched female voice, in his earlier stand-up appearances.<\/p>\n<p>These are the tools of the trade, and the woke Left wants to take them away.<\/p>\n<p>Gervais isn&#8217;t having it. He told an interviewer early this week what he thinks of what he dubs<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/ricky-gervais-netflix-armageddon-special-cancer-disability-joke-criticism-1235767907\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"> manufactured outrage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Gervais said 99 percent of the criticism he faces is \u201cfaux\u201d offense from people who \u201cwant to be heard\u201d and would \u201cgo the other way if it meant getting noticed. But he concedes, \u201cpeople are allowed to be offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re allowed to hate it. They\u2019re allowed to not come to the show, but it\u2019s not going to stop me doing what I love, and I\u2019m not going to stop it at the expense of all the other people who love it. No one has to watch this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/ricky-gervais-matt-rife-woke-censorship\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fsm9AG0TCQ9E%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Matt Rife mirrored Gervais&#8217; stiff-spine approach in a related &#8220;controversy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The young, handsome comic is the Flavor of the Month thanks to his &#8220;crowd work&#8221; TikTok videos. Rife earned a Netflix special of his own with &#8220;Natural Selection,&#8221; and it similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/matt-rife-netflix-joke-offensive-cancel-cultre\/\">caused a kerfuffle<\/a> with the Comedy Police.<\/p>\n<p>Rife told a story about going to a restaurant and <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/matt-rife-responds-to-criticism-domestic-violence-joke-8405882\"  rel=\"noopener\">noticing the greeter had a black eye.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cAnd my boy who I was with was like: \u2018Yeah, I feel bad for her, man. I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face, ya know?\u2019\u201d Rife said during the special. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn\u2019t have that black eye,\u201d suggesting that the woman\u2019s inability to cook led to her abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Rife immediately called out the joke as a way of measuring the audience&#8217;s ability to absorb cruel humor.<\/p>\n<p>Outrage ensued. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Like Gervais, Rife didn&#8217;t back down.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/matt-rife-netflix-joke-offensive-cancel-cultre\/\"> He doubled down.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He shared a fake apology on social media and steered his critics to a web site selling helmets for special-needs people.<\/p>\n<p>The criticisms are similar to recent attacks on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/clay-travis-interview-american-playbook-free-speech\/\"> country crooner Jason Aldean<\/a>. His &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; spoke to frustration over &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221; protests that burn down cities.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question that must be answered here is, why? What drives the Left&#8217;s performative outrage?<\/p>\n<p>The answers are complicated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/woke-comedy-punching-down-lie\/\"><strong>RELATED: WHY WOKE COMEDY&#8217;S &#8216;PUNCHING DOWN&#8217; RULE IS A JOKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woke Left wants to control speech. Period. It&#8217;s why the homeless are now &#8220;unhoused&#8221; and we&#8217;re no longer allowed to reference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/05\/realestate\/master-bedroom-change.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;master&#8221; bedrooms.<\/a> What&#8217;s acceptable today will be verboten tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Just wait.<\/p>\n<p>Those changes don&#8217;t positively impact anything or anyone in society. No homeless person suddenly got the keys to a condo after being officially reclassified.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s virtue signaling 101. They do restrict speech and, potentially, lead to cultural cancellations for anyone who uses the newly &#8220;wrong&#8221; phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Hypocrisy also rears its head in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>The woke Left won&#8217;t punish comedians for being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/feminist-tom-arnold-melania-trump\/\">cruel to conservatives<\/a> or Christians, of course. They aren&#8217;t afforded the protections other groups receive.<\/p>\n<p>Nor will approved members of the club suffer for breaking the woke laws. Ask why First Son Hunter Biden wasn&#8217;t cancelled for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/08\/hunter-biden-repeatedly-called-his-white-lawyer-the-n-word-texts-show\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly using the &#8220;n-word&#8221;<\/a> in texts. (Or why the liberal press <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/media-overwhelmingly-silent-hunter-bidens-170400635.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">didn&#8217;t pounce or seize on the issue)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singers, like comedians, have long been able to channel voices and characters in their art. The woke Left doesn&#8217;t say a word about the rampant violence and misogyny in some rap lyrics, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Aldean, however, somehow crossed a line.<\/p>\n<p>Right-leaning <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/a84a7250b109411591ed6b976be800a0\"  rel=\"noopener\">Megyn Kelly got fired by NBC<\/a> for noting it wasn&#8217;t problematic for children to dress in blackface for Halloween during the 1970s. Liberal comic Jimmy Kimmel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jimmy-kimmels-problematic-past-completely-ignored-by-team-oscar\/\">repeatedly donned blackface<\/a> on cable television and will host the Oscars for the fourth time come March.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another key reason why the woke Left does what it does. The modern Left isn&#8217;t making the world a better place. They&#8217;re in charge of the government, the press, academia and the culture at large.<\/p>\n<p>And look where we are today.<\/p>\n<p>The Left stands by as crime soars across the country, promoting Defund the Police measures and voting for soft-on-crime politicians. They look the other way as cities like Denver become tent meccas where block after block of homeless people live in abject poverty.<\/p>\n<p>They watch with arms folded as the price of gas and food skyrocket, unable or unwilling to make the changes that will help ordinary Americans pay the bills or put food on their tables.<\/p>\n<p>They crank out Fake News story after Fake News story while silencing platforms allowing for necessary dissent. Progressive corporations are at war with Elon Musk&#8217;s X, the only major platform trying to preserve free speech for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/musk-portnoy-among-appalled-ivy-league-presidents-testimony-antisemitism-resign-disgrace\"  rel=\"noopener\">can&#8217;t even condemn calls for genocide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, now, the Left shares social media outrage over naughty jokes, pretending to have made the world a better place in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about cultural and political power for the Left. Always. Never forget that. 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