• lobut
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    3 months ago

    James Acaster on Ricky Gervais’ Trans Jokes

    Apparently Joe Rogan did a special recently and spent some time making transphobic jokes. Although, he “does” say it’s okay to be trans or something but then makes transphobic jokes. He even does a “did you assume my gender?” joke in the year 2024. Definitely bleeding edge there Joe.

    I think there can be good conservative jokes or whatever jokes to be honest. It just takes a lot more work. I think a lot of comedians are getting scared the zeitgeist is changing and they don’t know how to adapt their work. However, you’re comedians, figure it out.

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      3 months ago

      Cody’s showdy had an episode about conservative comedy and specifically made a point to say conservative comedy is possible and was a thing until recently all these hacks forgot what to do. He even gave several examples. My favorite was one from a brexiteer if you can believe it.

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        3 months ago

        Damn just watched the two hour video on SOME MORE NEWS. It really illustrates the problem with a lot of conservative comedy and also really broke down the stuff that bugged me about Dave Chappelle’s bits.