You’re seeing life through someone else’s life. Our only goal as comedians is to make you laugh and sometimes we miss the mark. What I’m trying to say is we aren’t giving misinformation, we aren’t saying things that incite violence. You have a responsibility to call them out. When I think the audience is laughing for the wrong reason, that’s where I stop. What in your mind crosses the line, or is there a line? We became sort of the enemy of the people. The president wouldn’t go to the White House Correspondents dinner. I’m not talking about politics, I’m simply talking about the behavior, the name-calling. It gives people permission to behave the same way. I don’t want to blame our previous president, but, you really see how the leader of the free world’s behavior really seeps into the culture. We’re not nice to each other, people are angry. If you don’t like a comedian, change the channel. I don’t want to live in a world without laughter. Vilifying someone for a standup act they did 25 years ago is simply unfair. You’re not lessening the horrors of a tragedy you’re seeing something from a different point of view. There are people who will laugh and then cover their mouth, to say “Oh right, I’m not supposed to laugh at that.” If your instinct is to laugh, there’s nothing wrong with that. There are people who are offended by proxy.
The thing is, it is the right and it is the left. So are we losing our sense of humor? Are we primed to be offended?
