‘It’s all been preposterous’: Stephen Merchant on fame, standup and the pressures of cancel culture
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/19/its-all-been-preposterous-stephen-merchant-on-fame-standup-and-the-pressures-of-cancel-culture
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Oh wow another person who’s richer than I’ll ever be for telling jokes telling me how scary it is to make a living telling jokes. That’s a new, deep perspective I hadn’t considered.
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There is no such thing as cancel culture. It’s the same as it’s always been – if you don’t like what someone says you don’t support them. That’s not cancel culture, that’s fucking free market capitalism
Kick up, not down. Easy. Joan Rivers did it best.
His take that he was brought up feeling comedy taught him nothing was sacred doesn’t hold water. You couldn’t have had Pryor and Carlin trade sets and have either of them be comfortable telling the other’s jokes. There’s lines that would have been crossed even before “cancel culture”.
Whenever you really dig into what jokes they think are being taken away it’s just shit like “Me Chinese. Me play joke. Me go peepee in your coke.”
Kicking me height.