# Stand Up Comics and Cancel Culture **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271 "2020-08-04T19:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/61 "2020-08-07T03:38:55Z")
> [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](#): > > Dead baby jokes are never ok. gay jokes are never ok, race jokes are never ok. I think we may be missing the mark with each other and actually agree more than we both realize. Relieved about the no dead baby jokes-I never for a moment thought you would tell one around someone who had lost a child, my only point was you can’t always know and you can’t always know what you don’t know. I would be willing to offer that I think that gay people can tell gay jokes and POC can tell race jokes, but I may be talking out of school here. And I enjoy gallows humor far more than you know-just ask my family and friends. So, are we friends yet? Do you have a joke for me? ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/62 "2020-08-07T03:44:10Z")
why did the bike fall over? ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/63 "2020-08-07T03:48:09Z")
it was two tired ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/64 "2020-08-07T03:58:59Z")
I liked it. A lot too clean, but I liked it. Sending it on to my bicycling fiend son. Here’s one back (also way too clean, but possibly gallows humor): An epidemiologist, an ICU resident and a virologist walk into a bar. Oh, sorry, 'course not. They know better. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/65 "2020-08-07T04:00:15Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I liked it. A lot too clean I didn’t want to offend anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/66 "2020-08-07T04:09:54Z")
Easy: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/03ryN7ARL1E/maxresdefault.jpg "Rape Can Be Funny") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ryN7ARL1E) ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/67 "2020-08-07T04:28:34Z")
> [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](#): > > it was two tired It’s not 100% innocuous. The guy in this video falls over and he is “two tired” (wearing glasses): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBJMhif97Q) He was so popular after this plunge that he became Romania’s Prime Minister. 😲 (The heading reads: Emil Boc falls live.) ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/68 "2020-08-07T04:28:58Z")
Well not only do you got rape jokes, there’s the racism of brown people along the equator being hypersexual, and racial slurs against the native peoples of Alaska. How is this right wing reactionary allowed on you tube? ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/69 "2020-08-07T04:30:49Z")
Laughing at a disability, should be ashamed at yourself ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/70 "2020-08-07T04:35:12Z")
I think I have a free pass here. Take a look at my face: 🤓 ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/71 "2020-08-07T04:57:36Z")
George Carlin is probably most famous for his “7 dirty words” bit. at the time he was an anti-establishment comic and everyone was clutching their pearls at such blasphemy. But he was poking society, making us better. he believed in free speech. The rape/Eskimo bit is the same thing. He is talking about free speech. But i assume someone will come along and say he’s an old fart that doesn’t get that you can say those things anymore. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/72 "2020-08-07T12:13:31Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > The problem is you don’t always know whether any one in hearing distance of a dead baby joke has just lost a baby-miscarriages can be a loss of a baby yet not known. It’s as if you’ve watched Jim Jefferies do his dead babies joke: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_GdEKvZ5q4Q/hqdefault.jpg "Jim Jefferies -- Atheism and Dead Babies -- Fully Functional") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GdEKvZ5q4Q&t=107) He also does one on miscarriage in his new Netflix special, “This Is Me Now”, in which he talks about a couple in the audience who’ve suffered a miscarriage. People who require trigger warnings should probably avoid comedy shows. Or at least have some familiarity with the style and type of material the comic is known for before purchasing a ticket. And you don’t have to laugh at all the jokes. Some jokes are not for you. That’s why there is more than one joke in a performance. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/73 "2020-08-07T12:32:26Z")
That’s pretty hilarious! > If you ain’t smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, what the fuck did you think was going to happen! ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/74 "2020-08-07T13:20:40Z")
> [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](#): > > Where would a Howard Stern land in all your estimations? Certainly said alot of “shocking” things in his career, but has toned things down things and has said, as Silverman said, he probably wouldn’t say those same things today. But the show can still be quite offensive to sensitive ears. Never liked him either, but last I checked he is yet another person who’s ‘cancellation’ means he keeps making money hand over fist and being treated as a celebrity. Are there any actual examples of comics getting hurt by ‘cancel culture’, or is it just stuff like Jerry Seinfeld flopping with lame jokes like “gay French King” and actively offensive comics like Stern and Silverman making bank? (And no, I’m not going to list off comics that I like, because that’s a Cafe Society topic not a GD topic). ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/75 "2020-08-07T13:30:27Z")
To add, are there any comics who are not actually benefiting from “cancel culture”? ISTM that having a few hundred people that would have never come to see your show publicizing how “offensive” or “non-PC” your show is can only be seen as free advertising. Not a comedian, but Rowling of Harry Potter fame certainly benefited when her books were condemned by religious fanatics. Unless what is being publicized is actual reprehensible actions, like Louis CK or Cosby, then is there really such a thing as negative publicity? ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/76 "2020-08-07T13:37:36Z")
Kevin Hart losing the Oscar gig due to a decade old twit. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/77 "2020-08-07T13:43:56Z")
> [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](#): > > Kevin Hart losing the Oscar gig Hmmm. > **[The Highest-Earning Stand-Up Comedians Of 2019](https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielshapiro/2019/08/16/the-highest-earning-stand-up-comedians-of-2019/#2d88bdcd42fa)** > > As a group, the top-earning comics brought in $272 million in the last year. > [@](#): > > Throw in revenue from a global stadium tour, and Hart raked in $59 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, earning him the No. 1 spot on _Forbes_ ’ list of the highest-earning stand-up comedians for the second time. My question stands. ETA: I would _love_ to be “canceled” like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/78 "2020-08-07T14:32:51Z")
I have to say, as a stand up comedy lover, that it is getting increasingly difficult to find a standup these days that is truly laugh out loud _funny_. Mildly amusing maybe, but not funny. I can’t tell you how many comedy specials I’ve switched off lately in the middle of because I didn’t laugh once. No edge to these people at all. That was pretty rare say 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/79 "2020-08-07T14:36:41Z")
Watch Ricky Gervais’s special on Netflix. Pretty edgy. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271/80 "2020-08-07T14:38:29Z")
I have. He’s an exception, and maybe 1 in a 100 are as good as he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-up-comics-and-cancel-culture/917271.md?page=5)