The demise of comedy in general is a much more pertinent issue. Political correctness and outrage culture has hobbled the ability to confront hard subjects through humor.
Have you not seen the bit by.. Josh Johnson? ... where he accidentally catfishes the KKK?
Or watched Frankie Boyle? Or the Mash Report?
It is pretty obvious there is plenty of comedy out there that approaches difficult and tough subjects through humor. Society is becoming less tolerant of racism and sexism and homophobia and things like that - you know, the political correctness of it. If your comedy includes making fun of men for being too "gay" or women for being too manly... sure, political correctness has caused a demise in your sort of humor, and good riddance.
There are plenty of logical inconsistencies, fallacies, half-truths, that every social tribe adopts that need a mirror to reveal their ridiculousness. Some may only be observed as an outsider from the group.
This is the service comedy has always provided.
We are humans. We are fallible.
But really, they were examples of comedy that the person claimed was hobbled as a result of political correctness - and I don't see it as the case at all. Comedy simply isn't what it was 30 years ago, but at the same time... comedy isn't what it was 50 years ago either.
The very idea that there couldn't be any funny perspectives left on the above topics shows that the idea of being emotionally protected has been elevated above free speech.
The vocal minority of Twitter do not represent the general public. https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-use...
I feel like the "demise of comedy" is overstated. Every time I see a comedian complaining about that, his netflix special is just a few clicks away.
Or at least know something about their experiences and come from a place of those experiences being real. I think a major reason that e.g. anti-LGBT jokes don't land the way they used to is simply that too many people know anything at all about LGBT experiences. Comedians can't get away with just making stuff up or leaning on cartoonish stereotypes, because it just rings hollow to so many people now. Likewise, "white guy does X like this / black guy does X like this" jokes are so dead that even jokes about the ineffectiveness of those jokes are trite.
> Every time I see a comedian complaining about that, his netflix special is just a few clicks away.
Also, even when comedians are ostensibly telling actual jokes about "political correctness" or "safe spaces", it often comes off as somewhere between inept trolling and outright whining. Somebody could probably make a "Stand-up comedy bit about political correctness or Rush Limbaugh rant?" quiz.