Inside Ricky Gervais’ most offensive Netflix show ever – and how it even eclipses Jimmy Carr controversy

RICKY Gervais is set to spark controversy with his most outrageous comedy show yet – which could eclipse the backlash around Jimmy Carr’s storm-inducing Holocaust skit earlier this year. 

The stand-up special called SuperNature features jokes spanning topics like rape, paedophilia, obesity, dead babies and disabled toddlers.

Anger is already brewing online over other gags on trans rights.

But Ricky doesn’t seem to care, as he says in the stand-up set: “If I say something so offensive, like you’ve never heard something so f***king off the charts in your entire life, don’t make a scene.

“Go to the box office after the show, there’s a form you can fill out with a complaint and I take those away… and I sh*t on them.”

One viewer called Jon Dexter wrote on Twitter: “You should put a warning that it’s highly offensive.”

Another called Neil Davies added: “Such a shame when someone like Ricky Gervais, who I probably agree with on most things, who has made great TV that I love, for some reason decides to take the cheapest shots in the stupidest ways.”

A third account called Luber Facts said: “Punch up, not down. That’s how comedy should work. Attack those in power, not marginalised groups. Racism, sexism, homophobia etc. All punching down. Transphobia. Punching down.”

Now it is thought the backlash could even eclipse that seen around Jimmy Carr’s Holocaust skit in another Netflix special, February’s His Dark Material.

Ricky has his own set of jokes on Hitler in the special.

The Office and After Life legend argues in the hour-long show: “If I say something so offensive, like you’ve never heard something so f***king off the charts in your entire life, don’t make a scene.

“Go to the box office after the show, there’s a form you can fill out with a complaint and I take those away… and I sh*t on them.”

And he reasons: “You know I’m joking about all the other stuff, but then they go ‘oh no he must mean that one particular thing’, like the joke is a window to the comedian’s true soul. I’ll take on any view to make the joke funnier.”

SuperNature launched on Netflix on Tuesday May 24.