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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Lisa McLoughlin

Petition launched against Ricky Gervais over jokes about terminally ill children

A petition to remove an offensive joke from Ricky Gervais’ new stand-up special has gained more than 4,300 signatures.

In a teaser for the comic’s upcoming Netflix show, Armageddon, he refers to terminally ill children as “baldies” and joked that the kids, supported by the Make a Wish foundation, were “f****** r*******” for not “wishing to get better”.

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