![]() "I think that's what comedy is for, really - to get us through stuff, and I deal in taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn't been before, even for a split second. Most offense comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target," he said. In a separate interview with BBC One's The One Show, Gervais said comedy is for "getting us over taboo subjects". "I've always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of expression. It was probably the most current, most talked about, taboo subject of the last couple of years. I deal in taboo subjects and have to confront the elephant in the room," the 60-year-old actor-comedian said. Trans rights organisation GLAAD criticised the comedian for the special which it said was full of "graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes". Talking to UK's The Spectator, Gervais said his jokes were not aimed at "trans folk, but trans activist ideology".
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