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Share Couldn t walk, took me ages, I had only made it to the end of the street. It s that thing when you are in agony and you can t walk but you don t want to look weird to anyone. I wanted to lie down and scream, Get me a f g ambulance .
Recurring pain: The 60-year-old comic (pictured in 2020) held a Twitter Live session in which he revealed he had been trying to tie his shoelace when his back started causing him grief
Suffering: Ricky also Tweeted about his back problem, describing himself as lying on the floor with a hot water bottle
Joe Kasper
Updated: 18:45 ET, Jul 16 2021
OUTSPOKEN comic Ricky Gervais is inviting trouble in a new stand-up routine by claiming he can’t name one funny woman.
The Office creator, 60, pokes fun at sitcom star Miranda Hart during his Super Nature show and says the only “females” that make him laugh are Dame Edna Everage and Eddie Izzard.
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Ricky Gervais suggested he did not find Miranda Hart amusingCredit: Getty - Contributor
Dame Edna is an alter ego of Aussie comedian Barry Humphries, 87, while Eddie, 59 describes himself as gender-fluid.
Free speech defender Ricky made the comment at a warm up gig for his Super Nature tour next month.
Share In real life I know there are loads of funny women. Like, um. No, but there are. Dame Edna Everage. Eddie Izzard. She s funny. She s not only a great comedienne she s also a great actress. He was, she was brilliant as that man in that thing, he quipped.
Punch line: Dame Edna is the on stage alter ego of the male comedian Barry Humphries, 87, and Eddie, 59, announced she is gender fluid in December.
Ricky, who later insisted he was joking with his scathing set, then took a pop at Miranda Hart as he said he d been trolled online by a person who questioned whether he was actually a comedian.
Jill Fairchild Dies at 94
Women s Wear Daily (WWD) 19 hrs ago James Fallon
Jill Fairchild who in her quiet way was as much of a force, and had as much of an impact, as her late husband John B. Fairchild, WWD’s legendary editorial director and publisher died June 25 at age 94. They were a couple who perfectly complemented one another and who, at the time of his death in 2015, had been married 64 years.
A slim, beautiful woman for whom the words “elegant” and “erudite” seemed to have been invented, when she walked into a room there was something striking about her quietly understated style and composed presence, even into her late age, that exemplified her father’s and grandfather’s military backgrounds. There was nothing flashy about either her clothes a mix of famed designer labels and exotic finds or her homes, which over the years stretched from New York to Nantucket, London to Gstaad. Yet everything from the food to the flowers to