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The Political Orphanage

Cancel Culture Runs Out of Steam (WSPN)

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, Moderate, Politics, Independent, News, Nonpartisan, Libertarian

5951 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The World’s Smartest Podcast Networks convenes to ask: is Cancel Culture on its way out? Comedian Hannah Gadsby’s art exhibit “Pablo-Matic” draws attention to the misogynist side of Pablo Picasso… but didn’t seem to get much attention itself. Turner Sparks, Andrea Jones-Rooy, and Andrew Heaton combine forces to discuss the end of Cancel Culture and how funny comedy needs to be to be comedy.

NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/hannah-gadsby-brooklyn-museum-picasso.html

Poll: Who Gets Canceled? https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-who-gets-84935788?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the world's smartest podcast network.

0:05.8

Hello and welcome.

0:06.8

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvings.

0:20.0

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, but today I am joined by my occasional co-hosts,

0:26.6

Turner Sparks and Dr. Andrea Jones Roy, both comedian friends of mine, to discuss cancel culture. But we're going to do something

0:36.3

a little different than what you might be used to, which is rolling our eyes at some

0:41.9

particularly egregious example of campus outrage or online

0:46.2

religiosity. We're not going to be pointing and laughing at whatever the freak-out

0:51.1

de jure is. Rather, we're going to look at something that mostly

0:57.0

fizzled, barely smoldered, and use that lack of incendiary reaction as evidence that cancel culture is on its way out.

1:08.0

It's warn everybody out. It's exhausting and it's exhausted itself.

1:13.0

Now because the three of us are comedians who know each other through comedy,

1:17.0

we're also going to spend a lot of time discussing comedy.

1:21.0

Specifically, how funny does comedy need to be to qualify as such?

1:28.6

For example, if you tell a joke to get applause from a sympathetic audience rather than to make it laugh.

1:35.7

Are you really performing comedy or are you giving a speech at a comedy club?

1:41.6

Finally, it's very, very difficult to seriously analyze stand-up comedy

1:46.8

without using the F word or referencing ononism. So we do both, albeit lightly.

1:54.0

So if you have children, you might adjust how old the kids are before they listen to this.

2:00.0

I am not a parent, but if I owned my own middle school student I would feel fine with them

2:05.2

listening to this I don't think it's very bad but I also don't have much Ned Flanders

2:09.0

left in me at this point in life so if three or four F words and analysis of ononistic humor offend your parental

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