Ricky Gervais recycled a 15-year-old joke in his new Netflix show 'After Life.' Some fans aren't happy.

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Ricky Gervais recycled a 15-year-old joke in 'After Life' on Netflix, and some fans aren't happy.

Some fans on Twitter said"it's a shame" and"a bit lazy" to repeat old lines.Gervais revisited the subject of death in his new Netflix show"After Life," after exploring the topic in his 2008 movie"Ghost Town." The comedian also recycled lines from old stand-up routines and radio shows, and some viewers weren't pleased.

In the first episode of"After Life," Gervais repurposed a joke from his 2004 live tour,"Politics." Back then,about a friend from university, Pete, buying a newspaper from a"little old lady" with a front page showing an elderly mugging victim nursing cuts and bruises. "And the old lady, just making conversation — she probably said it to everyone who came in that day - she went to Pete: 'It's awful, isn't it?' And he went, 'Yeah. Yeah, she's 93. Scarred for life.' But you leave it, don't you? Pete went, 'Well, that's not scarred for life then, is it?' She went, 'What?' 'You scar a baby for life, don't you? If she lives till she's 100, she's only been scarred for seven percent of her life.

In"After Life", Gervais' character Tony has the same encounter and gives a similar response."Terrible, isn't it? Scarred for life," the old lady says. Tony replies,"Hardly scarred for life. She's 93. If she lives to 100, she's only been scarred for seven percent of her life." Similarly, in episode five of"After Life", Tony recounts an old Greek proverb."A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

 

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He's F--k all with out the master of comedy Stephen Merchant!

Theron_Mohamed This was a great article. Ricky Gervais seems happy with the response because he gives complimenters a biscuit for praising him. False praise. He manipulates them to praise him. The show was terrible recycled material from Twitter, stand ups, all past shows and movies. Awful show

If by 'some fans aren't happy' you mean 'we found 1 guy on Twitter who complained and decided to write an article about it for clicks' then yes, rickygervais fans are mad with rage Afterlife

Some fans are just batsh*t-crazy. And so are you, You guys are a joke.

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