Eddie Murphy shows you can evolve, apologise – and still be funny
A 30-year-old video of George Carlin is proof some standups have long understood the ugliness of attacking underdogs. It’s a lesson many current comics are learning
Comedy is dying and political correctness is killing it. Nobody can joke about anything any more without triggered liberals screaming “racism” and “cancelling” them.
I’ll stop there because I’m sure you have heard this screed before. Conservatives love complaining about how millennial snowflakes can’t take a joke and don’t understand “edgy” humour. In September, for example, the comedian Shane Gillis was dropped from Saturday Night Live after footage surfaced of him making racist, homophobic and misogynistic gags. Gillis responded to the outrage with a non-apology in which he explained that he “pushes boundaries” and takes risks.