1.0 link 155045 <![CDATA[RIcky Gervais Defends His Fat Jokes]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/03/ricky-gervais-defends-his_n_155045.html Comedian Ricky Gervais has caught flack over comments he made about overweight people in an audio, and has taken to his blog to defend himself.

In a new audiobook, The Ricky Gervais Guide To Medicine, the 47-year-old calls (via The Telegraph) people who get stomach surgery to lose weight "lazy fucking fat pigs" who should go for a run instead:

"I really don't know why a doctor under a hippocratic oath takes the risk of something going badly wrong, sometimes...

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