The biggest Internet story in recent memory is still a hot topic a couple days later and naturally everyone has an opinion on it; especially celebrities on Twitter. As you might expect, Ricky Gervais opted for a more humorous approach to the situation but there were many who thought there was nothing to laugh about at all.
Here’s the original tweet he made (since deleted):
Followed by these after he received a load of criticism from others users:
Anyone who retweets this leaked erotic photo of me should be ashamed of themselves. pic.twitter.com/p2KBa6serK
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) August 31, 2014
Making a joke about a thing doesn’t mean you condone that thing. — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Of course the hackers are 100% to blame but you can still makes jokes about it. Jokes don’t portray your true serious feelings on a subject
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
It’s more important to spend your energy trying to stop actual bad things than to run around trying to stop jokes about bad things. — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Offence is the collateral damage of free speech.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Whenever I defend freedom of speech someone always says “so you’d let Hitler off?” Haha. It wasn’t his words so much as all that genocide. — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Make jokes, not war.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
So while he’s wrong to suggest that the celebrities are at all to blame for their private photos being leaked, we do back his point that he’s just trying to make people laugh and that the energy expelled in letting him know how insensitive he is could be better directed elsewhere. Laughter is the greatest medicine, after all.