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CMV: Comedy should not be exclusively PC. Everyone needs to get poked fun at sometimes. No limits.

This all came to a head when Dave Chapelle was getting shit for his netflix "Sticks and Stones" special (great foresight on the title). People bitch too much. The show was a thought provoking and fresh change in the sea of boring "airplane food" type jokes/routines going around.

* Comedians are the ones that call out the bullshit in our society. Jokes cannot exist without an element of truth, and often reveal to you the fucked up shit we deal with daily. The Humor is only offensive to you specifically, and dragging everyone down because your fragile feelings got hurt is a shitty thing to do. Humor does not give a shit. Please do not have a stick up your ass as this makes you unlikable and a buzzkill imo.
* Comedy is a medium to help us grapple with the complex and often disappointing (depressing/not fun) realities we face in the world, and the PC Police staunching it over trivial things has gone too far and is not helpful. Comedy makes you think about why the joke was funny and the elements of truth and fiction in the joke. People who want to police jokes are the disillusioned ones who dont want to face the truth and the music.

The beauty of comedy is that anything flies for laughs. It is self policing. Its the responsibility of the comedian or joke teller to analyze his audience demographic and based upon that, alter the severity of the joke. If a joke went to far, nobody laughs. And that to me, is beautiful.

CMV.

EDIT:

I urge all to check the delta post. Very good breakdown. Comedians should either shit on everyone by the same amount or delve into controverisal topics and use jokes to explore them with the audience. Bigots pretending to be comedians with their circle jerk audience should not be allowed. If your special focuses on the jewish for the entire hour and only trashes and does not meaningfully explore, its not comedy. Its being a cock. That being said nobody is untouchable, and somebody shouldn't cry and bitch if they were offended from 3 minutes out of a 1 hour show.
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People who are racist or sexist or otherwise nasty have always used humor as a vehicle to convey their bigotry in public. And then tell everyone "it was just a joke". Or target people and then tell them "can't you take a joke". Or complain about how everything has become too PC nowadays.

Now there are great comedians like Bill Burr who base their comedy on being politically incorrect and say some wild things. But if you make an effort to listen to them carefully, you realize they really are not being racist in a genuine way. There are always ways to figure this out in a fairly clear way. Such as comedians who will uniformly trash everyone.

But if there is a comedian or someone who plays the role of a jokester in a group and they always seem to target certain people, and never others, it is not comedy or a joke. It is just their bias and bigotry hiding behind a thin veil. And there should be no tolerance for it.