Has Ricky Gervais responded to Stewart Lee's criticisms of his recent comedy drama work?

Gervais has not said anything directly but on his Twitter account this morning he tweeted a trailer from the first series of the netflix hit After Life. In the clip Gervais' character, mourning his wife's death, says: "I'm not gonna let cunts wind me up." He added the comment: "The best trailer ever made" and a laughing smiley face emoji.

Here is a link to the clip.

He later posted a couple more tweets. One was: "Watch the award-winning, record-breaking stand up special #SuperNature. Streaming on @Netflix around the world."

Another was a picture of him laughing alongside two big dogs with the comment: "Hope you're having the day you deserve."

Last week an interview with Lee as part of Rob Brydon's Spotify series was released to promote the BBC broadcast of Lee's two recent stand-up specials, Snowflake and Tornado. Snowflake is now on iPlayer, Tornado (pictured) was postponed due to the death of the Queen and now goes out on Friday, September 16 at 11.35pm.