He could at least laugh about it now.
"I'm a public figure," he said, adding, "All I care about is that they actually are funny, so that I can at least laugh about it while they're mocking me".
"It's not an exact science, making laughs out of this kind of stuff, but I think there's a desire on the part of the audience to, if not discuss race, at least laugh about it," he said.
The legions of people in the last-minute line at lunchtime — always a grim ritual of tax day — had something to lash out at, or at least laugh at, this year.
If you're a person who grew up in Robertson, you will have either gone to the toilet once or twice inside it, or at the very least laughed until your stomach hurt as one of your friends did.
Though the commercial aviation system remains under the tightest security measures ever, and new warnings keep coming about terrorist threats, the book's success shows that we can at least laugh again about the fundamentally miserable, and altogether unnatural, experience of traveling by air.
Writing for Empire magazine, Olly Richards gave the movie 2 stars out of 5 and compared it unfavorably with its predecessor, writing: "The first film you could at least laugh at.
I set out to discover just how a handful of shops that specialise in dog-eared Penguin Classics and 17th century vellum manuscripts are – from the outside, at least – laughing in the face of change.
You don't have to be funny, but at least laugh.
But at least the laughs keep coming, including a choice joke about how to rage against Rage Against the Machine.
Gervais, of course, became famous for crafting some of the least comfortable laughs on television, but it's a strange phenomenon to laugh at his jokes as some form of guilty pleasure.
