What’s really behind the never-ending faceoff between Comedy and Free Speech?
Tag: PC
Seriously, Can Comedy and Cancel Culture Live on the Same Planet?
Comedy is at a quite different place today than it was just a generation ago. In that simpler time, comedy was essentially about making people laugh, whether it was slapstick humor or one involving social commentary. Then society as a whole started to change, beginning in the 1960s, with the push to create a more…
Going to Jail for a Joke: A Contemporary American Look at German Comedy
The saying that America is a ‘free country’ is something that Americans in the comedy business in contemporary times would probably appreciate better than most people. But in other places, however, thanks to their laws, comedians actually live in a different world and in some cases can actually go to jail for the content of…