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    better objectives in their life. Many people look to someone to serve as a model or motivator for their life. Mine happens to be J.K. Rowling because of her persevering in hard times, Patrick Stump for his ability to be humble about everything and Ricky Gervais for his love of animal advocation. These people have inspired me to enjoy the little things in life and not take things for granted. J.K Rowling is the creator of the famous series Harry Potter, but little do people know of the struggles…

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    Hamlet. It focuses on three charming personalities who are easy to talk to and are capable to reasonably communicate, just like disinterested, sick and tired office associates socially interact with each other. Comedy producers Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant would bring a modern point of view at America’s corporate realities by producing Words, Words, Words. They have proved their ability to elicit laughs from audiences by creating television comedy series The Office about a…

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    media. The festival attracts local protestors, but also generates lots of criticism on social media. Animal lovers, animal rights groups, and celebrities are vocal with their condemnations of the festival. Comedian and animal-rights advocate Ricky Gervais is extremely vocal in his opposition of the festival, or, as he appropriately clarifies, “It should be called a Dog Torture Festival. Because that's what it is.” Humane Society International [LINK:…

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    Comedian and an actor in many films including, Night At The Museum and Muppets Most Wanted, Gervais has spoken about animal testing and abuse plenty of times. When a huntress killed a giraffe and posted it on Twitter, the outraged actor immediately responded to the gory picture. Quoting “What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?” (Gervais) Back in 2012 he wrote a small letter on Twitter about shampoo testing on animals,…

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    Marketers, advertisers and public relations people know how important publicity is. What better venue than the Golden Globes? Ricky Gervais, host of the 2016 Golden Globes, joked Sunday night that nobody cares about the awards show. That probably holds true when it comes to Wall Street. Media companies aren't really affected by big events such as the Golden Globes. However, maybe this time, media companies should start caring. Do you currently own a publicly traded media company or are…

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    Welcome to Gervais Studios, I’m your host Ricky Gervais and tonight we’ll be experiencing comedy at its finest. Tonight we’ve invited the Australian dynamic duo of guests, the “iron lady” herself, and that isn’t a command as well as “Palmegeddon.” Tonight's show is going to be one of extremely enormous proportions, or as Michelle Bridges calls it “the morning session.” Personally, for the benefit of my tangerine and pearl striped floor, I wish to refrain from asking this, but I would like to…

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    An Idiot Abroad What will happen when a touchy couch potato becomes a reluctant world traveler? An Idiot Abroad can give you the answer. In this British travel comedy series, a man named Karl Pilkington is sent by his friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, to travel to several foreign countries around the world. In the episode that is to be discussed here, he was made to visit Thailand and was asked to perform a variety of quirky tasks assigned by his friends. There are certain elements in…

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    Bob Mortimer Family and Biography With his hilarious jokes and whimsical act, he cracked up everyone he ever came across. He is none other than the greatest comedian of all time Robert Renwick Mortimer, popularly known by his stage name Bob Mortimer. He is widely known for his stand-up comedy in his native land England and as well as internationally. The 57 year old comedian started his first comedy programme along with his long time business partner, comedian Vic Reeves in 1986. Mortimer’s…

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    In America, several people have dogs, cats or a combination of both as a pet in their household. Dogs are known as a man's best friend and cats are cute and cuddly. People who have or do know a dog or cat have never had a thought about killing them and eating their meat. Well, that is what the Yulin Festival is all about. This festival is the reason thousands of dogs and cats get killed each year. How would you feel if they came into your backyard and stole your dogs and/or cats? Hence, the…

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    would be unnecessarily difficult for a member of that faith to feel cultural capital and exercise agency when they are being attacked by the most modern, and massively used media; social media. As posted in the Dailymail by Jo Clement (2009), Ricky Gervais made a joke at the Golden Globes receiving negative criticism, “The issues holocaust films have is the lack of gag reels”, as if the holocaust should be something jokes about. This method suppressing the Jewish culture through exercising…

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