The following is an excerpt from Lou Perez’s book, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy.
Tag - cancel culture
Is the right still capable of damning it up, and saving a tolerant, liberal, open culture from the foaming waters?
Cancel culture was a massive threat to the freedom to think and speak without becoming a forsaken “other.” But surely we’ve come to see the light by now.
Cancel culture, censorship, and hate speech laws are manifestations of a society that has forgotten how to withstand the stimulus of uncomfortable speech.
Matt Kibbe sits down with Mark Pellegrino, a film and television actor who’s had roles in such successful projects as “The Big Lebowski,” “Lost,” and “Mulholland Drive.”
Matt Kibbe sits down with U.K.-based rapper Zuby to talk about coronavirus lockdowns in Britain, cancel culture, censorship, and the role of the arts in speaking truth to power.
Can we officially say this is how the 2020s will be remembered, and more importantly can we change the course?
How did the leftie cartoonist, who not-so-subtly stuffed his children’s stories with banal liberal ethics, find himself on the canceled firing line?
Everyone has the ability to do both terrible and incredible deeds. The ability to overcome temptation and adversity is worthy of our adoration and praise.
The main takeaway from Cuomo’s intransigence is the only universal left in our disjoined politics: When you’re a Democrat, they let you do it.