“If there was an effort to make stand-up comedy a bit more genteel a few years ago — with offensive words and phrases placed out of bounds,” writes the Wrap, “a second Trump administration has emboldened more transgressive voices who are willing to wind it back to the days when it was fine to have a laugh at the expense of women, trans people, people of color and the mentally disabled.” Do you want to know what another word is for “anti-woke comedy?” Comedy. Do you want to know another word for “woke comedy?” A lecture. There is no such thing as “woke comedy.” There’s nothing funny about woke. It’s not about laughs, it’s about applause lines. Woke is pedantic, smug, self-involved, and pious. Comedy is none of those things.Laugh, and the real world laughs with you...
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