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Why Ricky Gervais Is Quitting Twitter · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Like just about anything
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Speaker 1: else he does. Ricky Gerve is pretty good on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't you say? He's got about fifteen million followers, But
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Speaker 1: he's over it outside of using it as a promotional
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Speaker 1: tool because he believes people can no longer take a
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Speaker 1: joke on there. And the larger issue, according to Ricky,
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Speaker 1: is that people sometimes misunderstand where a joke is coming from,
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Speaker 1: because even though it might be born in a comedian's mind,
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Speaker 1: it isn't necessarily how they feel. Ricky tells enemy, some
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Speaker 1: people think a joke is the window to a comedian's
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Speaker 1: true soul. That's just not true. I'll take any of
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Speaker 1: you that makes the joke funnier. I might pretend to
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Speaker 1: be right wing, I might pretend to be left wing.
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Speaker 1: I pretend to be clever, I pretend to be stupid.
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Speaker 1: Whatever makes a joke funny without prejudice. I'm all the characters,
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Speaker 1: I wrote all of them. I'm simply having an argument
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Speaker 1: with myself. So why you may not be able to
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Speaker 1: catch Ricky Shumer on Twitter any longer? You can find
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Speaker 1: it plastered all over the new season of Afterlife, which
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Speaker 1: he wrote, directed, and stars in streaming on Netflix that's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.