I don't think Gervais is remotely conservative. His recent history includes campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK election and being an outspoken supporter of atheism (he won the "Richard Dawkins Award"... sounds like a parody but apparently some atheist group has such an "award") and is known for loudly promoting gay marriage.
Most likely he is simply an ANTI-SJW liberal. Such creatures exist. In fact, I would venture to say that only about 15-20% of people who politically liberal ARE also SJWs. Most of them privately think the SJW antics are ridiculous, but say nothing because they afraid to speak out against the SJWs and offend their fellow virtue-signaling leftists and end up on the $hit list of fellow socialists. Gervais has NO such qualms, obviously.
I've seen other examples, though usually nowhere near as bombastic as Gervais.
For example, I'd say Mel Brooks fits the category. By all accounts he is an across-the-board liberal and probably votes straight Democrat, but he wants nothing to do with ridiculous SJW antics and is as politically incorrect as it gets and never cared who he offended. He gave an interview last year where he complained that political correctness in Hollywood was "killing comedy".
A far longer list would be solid leftists who DON'T speak out against SJWs but end up on their $hit list anyway because they DON'T virtue signal and refuse to apologize for jokes that "offend" women, blacks, hispanics, immigrants, muslims, gays, etc. My best example here is Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville, etc.). The guy is an outspoken hardcore socialist RAT (hates Bush, endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016, Mayor Buttboy in 2020, donates thousands of dollars to the DNC, etc.). SJWs never-the-less loathe MacFarlane because he is a "cis-gendered male" who puts "shockingly insensitive" jokes in his TV shows poking fun at gay and transgender stereotypes, and won't apologize for it. Apparently they are outraged he spoke the truth that a straight guy would "probably throw up" if he found out that he slept with a chick who used to be a dude. He'll do the same making fun of Islamofacists, man-hating feminists, basically any and every group is open to mockery on MacFarlane's TV shows. MacFarlane is also sick of other leftists who don't practice what they preach and go around lecturing other people. I remember him blowing up how about Jon Stewart "promotes himself as the good guy" fighting for workers rights but behaved the opposite way and fired all his union workers who went on strike, or something like that.
A lot of leftists are just as sick of SJWs as the rest of us, its just that 90% of them are afraid to say anything.
The conservative equivalent might be Impy and I telling neo-confederates they are full of crap when they say stuff like the DemonRat Party was "the conservative party back then, and the Republicans were the liberals". Plenty of conservatives disagree with them but are afraid to tell the neo-confederates they are full of crap, but a handful of us have no such qualms. ;-)
“Anti-SJW liberals”. Interesting.
I’d add that Mel Brooks, Seth MacFarlane and to a lesser extent, Jon Stewart are talented and have thriving careers.
The bulk of SJWs either have no talent, no careers or are washed up, thus they have “to scream for supper”.
My two cents.
And Gervais did rip them new ones, it was a sweet moment.
Yep, he hates them because they aren’t far enough to the Left for him.