# College Humor is dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-humor-is-dead/846490>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 16, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-humor-is-dead/846490 "2020-01-16T02:53:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-humor-is-dead/846490/21 "2020-01-18T22:29:57Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> Yeah, perhaps that’s ok though. Perhaps the ‘safe space’ and ‘trigger warning’ crap has gotten too much in a facility that is supposed to foster mature informed introspective adults. Though I do wonder if the world isn’t just changing Like it always has and some older comedians are discovering that their material doesn’t work on a college campus like it does on the blue collar dive bar circuit.
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> Ever watch Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee? A famously funny comedian is just out of his element in cringeworthy interviews with funny people who don’t have an issue on college campuses. Dave Chappell also has beef with college audiences, but his latest Sticks & Stones is just outright bizarre. Both don’t offend me or anything, they just seem like wealthy people who have lost touch with their ‘common man’ voice and blame everyone sitting for it.

There is nothing inherently college about the site except that 20 years ago they apparently wanted to go for that demographic. If anything there audience is those who went to college 20 years ago. The scotches and shows had nothing to do with college. Their show Total Forgiveness was about paying off student loan debt  
But that was about 30 year olds with debt. The current list of performers were all well above college age and came mostly from sketch comedy groups like UCB. Don’t get hung up on the college thing. This has nothing to do with college.

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