I love Gervais because he’s inevitably a few steps ahead of where you think he currently is. The people who are offended by him make his point even better than he does - and he knows they’re going to do it. You don’t get to write at the standard he does by just being a bigot, you don’t get to perform at his level by just being an unpleasant Jackass, he and Bill Burr are keeping the flag of intelligent independent thought alive in the modern digital era. He’s on my list of people I’d love to write with. :o)