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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don’t know… maybe. There are more than a couple offensive episodes (but again, I personally thought they were still super funny, you can just recognize ones that people would take issue with out of context) but I also think there’s comedians that get away with the same or worse today.
I think a bigger problem in comedy that I’ve noticed lately is that a lot of comedians (especially older ones) are building entire sets that mostly just complain about cancel culture and what they can’t say, and then they say it anyway, but it’s not very funny because it comes off like they’re trying to be offensive. A lot of younger comedians are able to land offensive jokes because they don’t have 20 minutes of set up about how cancelled they are and then use a 30 year old stereotype as the punchline.
I think you could still do Seinfeld today in context. Always Sunny is probably worse and they’re still going.
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I think there is a lot right with what you say there. The setting up of jokes by initially complaining about cancel culture before ploughing right ahead with ‘what has supposedly been cancelled’ is lazy and lame.
It’s the modern day equivalent to opening up a set with ‘Hey, what’s the deal with…’.