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Ricky Gervais attacks fat people

by LotusFlower | February 14, 2009 at 04:24 pm

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Comedian Ricky Gervais makes an uncompromising attack on the overweight in his new audiobook The Ricky Gervais Guide to Medicine.

The Office writer and star uses a string of expletives to attack fat people and doctors who make a living out of cosmetic surgery.

The un-sylph like Gervais could lose weight himself as he runs to the bank with the profits from this latest venture as it has already leaped to the top of the download charts.

The Office and Extras star said people who have liposuction and gastric band operations "lazy f---ing fat pigs".

Gervais, 47, launched his tirade on his new audiobook, The Ricky Gervais Guide To Medicine, which was released on iTunes on Thursday.

He said: "I really don't know why a doctor under a hippocratic oath takes the risk of something going badly wrong, sometimes with general anaesthetic, because someone can't be bothered to go for a f---ing run.

"They have bits sliced off and tied up and sucked out. I want to say to them, 'You lazy f---ing fat pig. Just go for a run and stop eating burgers. You might f---ing die'.

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Amy Judd

at 18:56 on February 14th, 2009

I disappointed - I LOVE him!!

Marcel Pellerin

at 08:46 on February 15th, 2009

i just listened to this audio book, his fat comments are taken too literally. He's a comedian it was a small little blurb in the conversation; get over it.

and besides i'm pro fat people jogging, gotta take care of the body. i have a friend who works at subway, and i'll admit that some of the customer's that come in are appalling in how fat they are, and i see them eating take out all the time.

by fat i mean grossly obese, glandular problems aside there's no excuse to be that size.