Is Ricky Gervais the New Richard Pryor?
Pardon our rant, but in an otherwise interesting piece about how British comedians are making a killing in America by eviscerating our idiot nation, The Daily Beast’s Sean Macaulay takes things just a little too far:
“Just as white liberals went to see Richard Pryor in the ’70s to expiate the sins of racism in a safe environment, so a certain kind of educated American goes to obnoxious British comedians to feel better about having bullied and tortured and killed the rest of the world.”
Ricky Gervais a modern day Richard Pryor? Are you avin
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