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Silenced Comedian Won't Shut The Fuck Up (hard-drive.net)
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“Like a lot of modern day truth tellers, I’ve been silenced,” said Monroe in his Netflix special: Canceled Trigger Warning – Offended???, which he was paid twenty million dollars to produce.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so this is satire of someone real doing this, and I'm out of the loop. Is this Rogan whining about people hating his terrible comedy?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's about Chappelle and Ellen having comedy specials on Netflix where they talk about being cancelled.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they are not even the only comedians doing this. It's basically a trope at this point.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Anyone who is paid to say funny things in public and still manages to pull that punk ass move is automatically wasting my time

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I think it's hard time to not be an asshole and work in comedy. A friend of mine got into stand up and it was just an avenue for him to teach everyone about the stereotypes he believes in. Before he was just this friend who said shit and we could ignore and change the subject, and then he got an audience and it was like everything he believed in was automatically approved and appropriate. If it got groans from people in the crowd "but they're women so who cares hahaha'. Covid took a lot of these people over the edge.

[–] zante@lemmy.wtf 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stewart Lee did a bit about comedians ridiculing comedians who did the whole ‘things you can’t say anymore’ thing.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago

Never have gotten a good answer out of anyone as to why they think their suggestions are full of people who've been 'cancelled'.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqma3rx-xI

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know this guy, but he sounds like he's as funny as our angry uncles at Thanksgiving.