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Ricky Gervais while promoting his COVID-delayed comedy special SuperNature on Tuesday joked about wondering if the upcoming Netflix show would be 'out of date'. 

The 60-year-old English comedian during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was asked if had to change jokes due to a long touring break because of the coronavirus pandemic.

'It was always evolving. There was a thought, 'Will this be out of date?' And then I realized that when you're dealing with, you know, famine, AIDS, cancer, Hitler, those dudes are evergreen,' Gervais quipped.

'Yeah, so they're not going to, they don't date,' he added.

'There is no audience that isn't going to love that,' Colbert, 58, said.

'Boo! Not Hitler! It was a long time ago,' Gervais said facetiously while laughing.

'Get over it!,' Colbert added while also cracking up.

Colbert noted that people have to know they will be forced to deal with offensive subjects at one of his shows.

'Like, you don't go to a Ricky Gervais concert for just feel good,' Colbert said.

'No, they do feel good, and the aim is to make them laugh and they do laugh, but they know that I deal with taboo subjects. But I deal with taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn't been before and there is a tension,' Gervais said.