🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Part one,of what might be resignation. "ya can't take a fuckin' joke"

[TerryP]

Something shifted in how we relate to comedy and the easy explanation is that everyone became too sensitive, or too politically correct, or too eager to be offended. "People just can’t take a joke anymore", everyone’s looking for a reason to be upset, the woke mob ruined comedy, etc

There’s definitely something to this, but I don't think the core issue is that everyone got too sensitive

I think the core issue is that comedy requires a shared sense of reality and we simply don’t have one anymore

For comedy to work broadly, you need broadly shared context. You need a population that more or less agrees on what’s true, what’s ridiculous, what’s taboo, what’s sacred, and so on

The comedian’s job is to dance along the edges of those agreements, pointing out the gaps between what we say and what we do, what we pretend and what’s real. But if there are no shared agreements to begin with, there are no edges to dance along

People are living in genuinely different information environments, consuming different media, following different accounts, absorbing different narratives about what’s happening in the world and what it means

We have sorted ourselves (or the algorithm has sorted us?) into micro-realities so efficiently that we no longer share enough common ground to laugh at the same things

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- stephanie tyler

 

[OldPlayer]

Comedians of today fail to cover the spectrum. Johnny Carson (for you young people he used to host the Tonight Show) was good about zinging Republicans as well as Democrats. Jimmy Kimmel only targets Trump. Stephen Colbert only targets Trump. These one-trick ponies don't appeal to me.

 

[footballer]

My sense of humor has changed significantly as the years fly by now. What I used to find funny, I do not now. Maybe have experienced too much " funny." Probably the majority of commercials on tv are meant to be funny. I see the most of them as silly, moronic horse manure.I think sometimes, my own personal attempts at humor, people sometimes don't know whether to take me serious, stupid, off color or lighthearted.

I can take a joke as well as anyone, as long as I recognize it as such. Laugh at myself often. I can do some stupid shit.

 

[sean]

We need more comedians like Don Rickles. That man didn't give a damn and hit EVERYBODY...not matter their skin color, sex, religion, etc. He just didn't care. And that's what made him so damn funny.

And if Eddie Murphy would go back to how he was in Raw and Delirious (or when he was on SNL), he'd be WAY funnier.

 

[footballer]