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@Defiance@sfba.social
2024-02-26 19:28:41

I like this "comedy rebels" framing to explain why certain comedians use cancel culture panic as a method of developing an audience.
Also why Lorne Michaels like these guys.
npr.org/2024/02/25/1233584316/<…

Text from the article: The fate of comedy rebels Saturday Night Live made its reputation as a group of comedy rebels making fun of a stuffy political and media establishment, lampooning corrupt and inept politicians from Richard Nixon to Sarah Palin; in other words, punching up. But today's comedy rebels see the insistence that comics lay off insulting slurs about marginalized people as the new establishment — building successful podcasts, standup tours and more on the mistaken notion that av…