HIGHLIGHTS: Patton Oswalt has a thoughtful take on comedians and cancel culture. Quote, “Pushing the envelope doesn’t mean digging your feet in while the envelope moves forward; you should be ahead of that envelope.”
FULL STORY: There’s so much yelling and screaming and kicking and thrashing over cancel culture. So how about a THOUGHTFUL take? The BRILLIANT comedian Patton Oswalt’s got that. Check it out:
Quote, “I think that comedians deserve context in what they say. You shouldn’t just ‘cancel’ out of context, but I also think comedians have a responsibility to evolve and to try to push things forward.
“And pushing the envelope doesn’t mean digging your feet in while the envelope moves forward; you should be ahead of that envelope, that’s how you should be pushing it.
“The whole battle over wokeness, it’s nothing new. This happened in the ’80s, it happened in the ’90s and it’ll happen again in another form.”
He adds, quote, “The other thing I’d say is that comedy has always worked better with restrictions.
“Think of the restrictions that Richard Pryor and George Carlin had, and before them, Lenny Bruce, and they found clever, brilliant ways around whatever the restrictions were, that’s what made it so fun and thrilling.
“There should always be taboo subjects and then there should always be clever ways to talk about them. You want both of those things. But like, if everything’s allowed, then there’s no thrill to the comedy.”
(Patton has a Netflix special coming out September 20th called “We All Scream”, and I’m willing to bet that if he tells any trans jokes, they’ll be hilarious but not offensive to the trans community. Because he’s capable of that.)
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