So you guys may have noticed something really weird happening in our pop culture.

It's this weird thing happening in the circles of comedy.

People like Sarah Silverman suddenly realizing that cancel culture is bad. Louis C.K. realizing the cancel culture is bad. Dave Chappelle realizing the cancel culture is bad. And you're saying yourself, wait a second, none of those people are even remotely on the political right. I mean, Louis C.K. is mostly famous for shouting about Sarah Palin's private zone. And Sarah Silverman is mostly famous for shouting about how Donald Trump is the worst orange man, whoever was orange, and also a man. So what exactly happened here? The answer is that the radical left lost its mind, and they took over a lot of the liberal woke sphere. And what they've decided is that jokes are now forbidden. If you make a joke, then you must be canceled. I mean,

and it's everybody. Everybody in comedy worlds is scared of this. Aziz Ansari has a whole bit about cancel culture in his newest special. And ultimately, I just felt terrible. This person

felt this way. This may not just me, but other people be more thoughtful, then that's a good

thing.

Like literally every comedian is now obligated to first apologize for all the bad things they've done

and then to ride cancel culture, which they should, because cancel culture is the death of

comedy. See, comedians have to exist on the edge. Comedians have to say the unsayable. They have

to say the taboo. A lot of comedy lies in saying a truth that everybody finds deeply uncomfortable or in saying something shocking. So much of comedy is shock comedy, where the shock itself is what drives the humor or saying something that nobody thought you would say because it just was something that you couldn't say, that when you get rid of those aspects of comedy, not much is left. And this is why you have seen so many on the political left attempting to overtly redefined comedy. You see this in the reviews of Hannah

Gadsby. Hennie Gadsby's entire comedy routine is saying deeply unfunny things over and over and over

while telling a sad sack story about her life to the rave reviews of the reviewing community.

The feedback, apparently, she said,

I was very disappointed in your show this year, Hannah.

I just don't think there was enough lesbian content.

I'd been on stage the whole time.

Those folks say that she has redefined laughter. She hasn't. She simply has transformed the role of the comedian into a sort of social voice. By the way, nobody highlights the crisis in comedy,

like my friend Matt Walsh. He's done a few videos going through the routines of these

SJW so-called comedians, and I won't spoil it for you, but let me say he is just one million times funnier. His new one on Hannah Gadsby, it just came out yesterday. You should check that out over on his YouTube channel and watch his suffering. It used to be the comedians did both. Comedians did social commentary, and they also did comedy, but the comedy came first. Now, the comedy has gone completely out the window because you might offend somebody. And here's the thing about most comedy. Most comedy does offend somebody. Conservatives for a long time have talked about the fact that most of the comedies made in the 1970s, the Mel Brooks comedies, for example, none of those could be made today, airplane could not be made today. So many funny movies could not be made today. Everything has to be canceled because it's offensive to somebody.

And comedians are starting to pick up on this. This is why Jerry Seinfeld says he is no longer going to perform on college campuses. Why bother? There's just nothing in it for him. Well, in this episode, we talk with a bunch of extraordinarily famous comedians people have made their living making people like you laugh. The episode's really funny. There's a lot of humor in the episode. But what the episode is really about is Americans from all areas of America's political life recognizing that comedy simply cannot survive an intolerant environment. I mean, if we can't laugh at ourselves, then who exactly is going to be able to tell a joke?

See, here's the thing. It's not enough for a comedian to be funny. It's that you, the audience, you have to be self-effacing. You have to be willing to take a ribbing. As a member of sort of the public sphere, as a person who's in the public eye a lot, I've been targeted by comedians regularly. And honestly, I kind of find it amusing. The reason I find it amusing is because most

jokes about me tend to be kind of true. I talk too fast. I speak too fast kind of find it amusing. The reason I find it amusing is because

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