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His monologue during that awards show included a joke aimed at Caitlyn Jenner's fatal 2015 car crash, which led to the death of another driver.

The gag, which ended in the punchline that Jenner's transition "didn't do much for women drivers", sparked backlash at the time. Gervais was accused of transphobia and criticised for "dead-naming" Jenner, after he referred to her by her pre-transition name.

In Humanity, The Office star doubles down on the quip.

"It wasn't transphobic in the slightest. It was a joke about a trans person, but the joke had nothing to do with that aspect of her existence," he says in the new special.

The disclaimer's a setup for a provocative bit aimed at baiting his detractors.

In an extended segment, he reimagines Jenner, pre-transition, walking into a doctor's office with a butch voice and manly gait. He then goes on to equate Jenner's transition to his own self-identification as a "chimp".

"If I say I’m a chimp, I am a chimp," Gervais says. "And don't ever 'dead-name' me, from now on you call me Bobo."

After a beat, he closes the gag with an ironic shrug: "And that's why that joke isn’t transphobic," he says.

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