Big trouble over dwarf jokes
Ricky Gervais and Rosie O'Donnell aim low
Big trouble over dwarf jokes
David Hiltbrand, Inquirer TV Critic
Ricky Gervais has a new HBO series debuting this weekend, Life’s Too Short, built around the comic travails of dwarf actor Warwick Davis. Here’s a preview.
It took a lot of work to find a clip from the series that wasn’t full of profanity or crammed with small-people insults. Gervais is already being ripped for the questionable taste and focus of the show. (I realize that sentence will draw more viewers than it will discourage.)
It’s been quite a week for insensitivity about dwarfism masquerading as humor. Consider this interview from the Rosie show of O’Donnell admitting to her guest Chelsea Handler that she is frightened of dwarves.
Handler takes it about a mile further, saying, “There’s not a lot of jobs for those kinds of people,” and talking about her E! show second banana Chuey, as if he were a Chihuahua. Ay caramba!
Did you also notice that Rosie couldn’t come up with the title for Game of Thrones? Short attention span.
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Rosie is a joke.- There is nothing funnier than a Dwarf smoking a huge cigar.. I don't care who you are.— sillybilly
- Rosie O'Donnell is gnomeophobic?— Burbanite
- I still say "midget"...cause I'm old school. And midgets are funny.— Nicher
- @Fascism Rules----What's your rub w Family Guy? It's clearly the funniest show in TV now...— marley66
- Gervais' new show "Lifes too short" looks hilarious. Willow is funny.— Bill E. Penn
- Is this um, "column" like the eqivalent to a 'sick day' in the field of um, "Journalism".
Sheesh.— 215PhillySean - Couldn't agree more with J.H. Rosie is a BIG FAT unattractive untalented loud-mouthed SLOB!!!— The Dude Abides
- What is this article? It's neither a report or an editorial. The title of the article is "Big trouble over dwarf jokes" yet it mentions no specifics of any "trouble" or fallout from Gervais' show, or for any of these other clips. And you provide zero opinion on the matter as well. Can I get a job at philly.com where i link 3 youtube clips and write 100 words which provide zero opinion, fact or references? Do you think perhaps we should save our judgement of Gervais' show for a larger sampling than a 1:32 clip?
C'mon man.— jayflo - Gervais is the funniest man in the world right now. He can do no wrong, except appear on Family Guy.— Fascism Rules
- Rosie looks like she smells.— dontavoidtheobvious
- Why you so short, bro?— Another_1
- Tell Rosie that a lot of people are afraid of fat lesbians.— J H
- Dwarf jokes are funny.— kelprod2
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