remember or comedy compared to ricky gervais, who's made similar jokes ricky gervais, who's made similarjokesy gervais, who's made similar jokes about transgender issues or frankie boyle, who's joked about rape , which joked about rape, which personally i find slightly more offensive benjamin , why? offensive? um, benjamin, why? why is someone making a joke about the transgender issue acceptable? because you've . but acceptable? because you've. but graham lynam isn't . graham lynam isn't. >> yeah, well, the funny thing about the history of the edinburgh fringe is that it was originally the edinburgh festival . yeah. and they had festival. yeah. and they had this thing where they were quite, you know, the old establishment. the establishment. remember the people to wear people who used to wear pinstripe and hats pinstripe suits and bowler hats and copy of the daily and carry a copy of the daily telegraph who longer the telegraph who are no longer the establishment said, we don't telegraph who are no longer the estabirreverent said, we don't telegraph who are no longer the estabirreverent acts.

>> i was supposed to come on, i'm all excited, i sit down and ricky gervais -- >> jimmy: okay, yeah,ody tells me. i'm sitting here, he's beating me up with all these bad remarks. i said," ricky, i'm happy to be here, since jimmy's not here i'm going to leave." i took off my mic and started to walk away. he stopped me, "no, please just hold it for one second, just give me a closeup." i stood there, took a closeup. he said, "we'll edit around you." [ laughter ] i woke up waving. my wife is like, what are you waving at? >> jimmy: the crowd? [ laughter ] >> it was big, brother. >> jimmy: was guillermo there? >> you know, no. you was on vacation with him, i think, i don't know. [ laughter ] >> guillermo: we were in hawaii, yeah. >> jimmy: hawaii. i didn't even make it into your dream. i'm disappointed. i got bumped from your dream. and you got roasted by ricky gervais. [ laughter ] >> man, it was crazy, man. >> jimmy: had you been smoking something the night before? no? >> i been sober, man. >> jimmy: you've been sober? >> what i did the night before, i performed my first ballet. >> jimmy

and this is something that amazing comedians like ricky gervais, ricky gervais make jokes about, youen's rights and the transphobic debate , but he's transphobic debate, but he's selling out stadiums around the world. so why do we have a problem with someone like graham, a small a small venue ? graham, a small a small venue? let's be honest in edinburgh, because the reality is ricky is so big that he's essentially un cancelable . cancelable. >> same with dave chappelle. when you get to a certain level of success and notoriety and fame and you can generate millions and millions of dollars for companies like netflix or amazon and you can fill out stadiums around the world, nobody is going to want to cancel you because everybody's making penny off it. >> but someone like graham, who can't command that type of revenue , all of sudden he revenue, all of a sudden he becomes fair game for this type of behaviour . of behaviour. >> we've got >> and meanwhile we've got frankie jokes about frankie boyle making jokes about rape banned rape and graham was also banned from twitter at point, from t

dossier it mentioned nigel farage had mentioned that nigel farage had retweeted joke . retweeted a ricky gervaisr. so i mean, you know, if you're going to punish jokes that punish people for the jokes that they i mean, that's they laugh at, i mean, that's that's just outright authoritarianism, it? authoritarianism, isn't it? >> subject of >> well, this is the subject of all of this. who are these individuals to make these subjective moral judgements about any one of us? it flies in the face of open democracy and free speech and all the rest of it. you know, i would it. you know, and i would have thought these major thought that if these major corporations and banks had been sort the pride flag sort of flying the pride flag 15, 20 years ago when it meant something , you know, when we something, you know, when we didn't equal rights for gay didn't have equal rights for gay people, would been people, that would have been something . something. >> something. » m something. >> do that, did >> but they didn't do that, did they? and you'll notice today they? and you'll notice today they fly pride flag

dossier it mentioned nigel farage had mentioned that nigel farage had retweeted joke . retweeted a ricky gervais so i mean, you know, if you're going to punish jokes that punish people for the jokes that they i mean, that's they laugh at, i mean, that's that's just outright authoritarianism, it? authoritarianism, isn't it? >> subject of >> well, this is the subject of all of this. who are these individuals to make these subjective moral judgements about any one of us? it flies in the face of open democracy and free speech and all the rest of it. you know, i would it. you know, and i would have thought these major thought that if these major corporations and banks had been sort the pride flag sort of flying the pride flag 15, 20 years ago when it meant something , you know, when we something, you know, when we didn't equal rights for gay didn't have equal rights for gay people, would been people, that would have been something . something. >> something. » m something. >> do that, did >> but they didn't do that, did they? and you'll notice today they? and you'll notice today they fly pride flag in

and i think that that epic gervais speech that epic ricky gervais speech that was golden globes, wasn'tlden globes, wasn't it ? completely harpooned the when he completely harpooned the pomposity of hollywood, i've never seen celebrities look so uncomfortable. yeah and that was the best thing about it. the fact he was totally lambasting, you of hypocrisy you know, the kind of hypocrisy of stand for. that's of what they stand for. that's the most privileged people on earth, us that we should the most privileged people on earfeel us that we should the most privileged people on earfeel ashamedthat we should the most privileged people on earfeel ashamed oft we should the most privileged people on earfeel ashamed of ours should all feel ashamed of our existence all feel ashamed of our existom e all feel ashamed of our existom hanks, his face was a >> tom hanks, his face was a picture, wasn't it? yeah. >> aidan magee still here? yeah. don't though, is >> aidan magee still here? yeah. donclassic though, is >> aidan magee still here? yeah. donclassic example ugh, is >> aidan magee still here? y