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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
The downfall in stand-up comedy over the last 5-7 years has been comedians trying to outdo each other being distasteful and punching down, often with trans people but with others as well or just trying to see if they can make something funny that's most clearly not (like pedophilia). I see that with Chappelle, Tom Segura, Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K. and a bunch of others and it's brutal because these are comedians I used to really enjoy.
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I think the downfall of comedy was when people forgot that they are supposed to tell jokes that people can use their consumer dollars to tell them whether or not they consider them to be funny, rather than expecting them to be society’s beacons of morality.