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Originally Posted by Adder
Nah. It's because writing comedy is entirely about understanding how people react to the words you use. Lazy comics take cheap shots at people more marginalized than them. They know what they are doing.
Meanwhile, good comics try to avoid punching down and are funnier for it. Louis CK had other issues, but he also did material on touchy topics because he was careful about how he approached them. A big part of Jim Jefferies's persona is walking the line but staying on the non-creep side.
Yeah, you can still make money being Nick Di Paolo or one of Rogan's mouth-breathing hanger ons, but that shit ain't funny.
ETA: What's especially annoying about these types of discussions is that literally everyone moderates what they say to a degree. No on is out there doing Scott Joplin routines. Heck, no one is out there doing Andrew Dice Clay or Kinison. The world changes. Which is an opportunity for the unscrupulous to pretend like they are refusing to change with it to make money of of dupes who think it's edgy. But even they have lines.
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Carlin nailed it: Everything, and I mean everything, is fair game, and can be funny, if done right.
The problem isn’t comics trying to be edgy. Comics are always edgy, and some of the funniest stuff can be quite mean. The problem is an audience that is saying certain things are taboo. Bullshit. Taboo is a made up word. The line is different for every audience member. No audience member who feels uncomfortable has the right to tell everyone else what they can or cannot hear or laugh at.
Somewhere along the last few years, however, people have started to assume they have a right to silence others from hearing what they want to hear.
Fuck those people. Seriously. Fuck them.
ETA: I don’t think that Diaz guy who Rogan loves is funny at all. He’s dumb, Dice-like. But do I care if he’s a sexist pig and some people like his dimwit humor? No. I just don’t watch the guy.
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