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Ricky Gervais has celebrated a brand new milestone for his show After Life , not lengthy after a scathing critique from fellow comedian Stewart Lee began doing the rounds once more on social media.
The controversial comic shared a put up to X/Twitter on Friday 23 August, writing: “Thanks to the 160 million people who made After Life the most-watched British sitcom in the world.”
He additionally shared a clip of “one of my favourite scenes ever”, through which his character known as a “paedo” by a baby in a college playground.
“I’m not a paedo, and if I was, you’d be safe, you tubby little ginger c***,” he tells the kid.
Shortly after, he shared a put up thanking “the hundreds of millions of people who watched my specials Humanity, SuperNature and Armageddon on Netflix. Especially the people who complained. Best marketing in the world.”
In one other put up, he mentioned: “The more successful you become, the more criticism you get. The more criticism you get, the more you work. The more you work, the more successful you become. Cheers.”
His feedback got here simply hours after a fan shared a clip of Lee dissecting After Life, branding it “one of the worst things ever made by a human”, throughout an interview with Welsh actor and comic Rob Brydon.
Brydon identified that Gervais had cited Lee as a “big influence”, to which Lee responded: “Yeah, well I don’t suppose Robert Oppenheimer felt great about having created the atomic bomb.”
Both Gervais and Lee’s names trended on X/Twitter as followers shared their very own views on the 2 comedians, with some criticising Gervais’s After Life clip.
“A contrived, ‘Needless to say, I had the last laugh,’ fantasy in which someone behaves in an implausibly d***headed fashion to enable Gervais to deliver a withering ‘edgy’ riposte.
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“The whole series in a nutshell.”
YouTuber Steve Shives wrote: “I only watched the first series of After Life and that was enough. It was less a comedy and/or a drama and more an act of attempted self-absolution, Gervais arguing why he shouldn’t be judged for being an intolerant bully.”
Gervais had the same response the primary time Lee’s feedback had been aired. While he didn’t explicitly acknowledge the jibe, he tweeted in September final 12 months: “Watch the award-winning, record-breaking After Life now streaming on Netflix around the world.”
He additionally “liked” numerous feedback about Lee from his followers, together with one through which the comic was described as “never-been-funny”.
Another tweet “liked” by Gervais learn: “I don’t even know who Stewart Lee is however, his comments about After Life really makes him look like a sad, bitter individual.”
You can learn The Independent’s review of After Life’s third and final season here.
