Julia Louis-Dreyfus Calls ‘Bulls—‘ Over Complaints That ‘Comics Can’t Be Funny Now’ Due to P.C. Culture: It’s Not an ‘Impossible Time to Be Funny’

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1. I was at the Comedy Mothership two weeks ago. Believe me, “PC Culture” was dead and buried in the place. And it was hilarious

2. Jerry ran out of material…

3. Them comics’s complaints belong in same box as those retailers complaining how shoplifting causes them to lose money when the problem is with their delivery of service.

   Blaming others for ones failings is classic entitled behavior.

4. If you need to be offensive to be funny then you ain’t good at your job 🤷‍♀️ she has a great way of putting the truth!

5. There’s plenty of comics out there killing it. If you tell a joke and a lot of people complain then the joke wasn’t good enough. So take note and write better jokes.

6. She’s right in that comics can still be funny.

   I never found her to be funny, though.

7. The fact that Louis C.K still has a career begs to differ there Julia…

   Edit as the redditor below pointed out I misread Julia’s comment. No support of CK.

8. Seinfeld, one of the dullest comedians ever, complaining about PC culture is a joke alright.

9. One of the core rules of comedy is as true as ever: Know your audience. Some people are going to find crude jokes less funny than others just as some people are not going to enjoy high-brow ‘intellectual’ jokes. Sure, there’s some overall change in tastes among the general public over the years, but there’s always a subset of people that’ll enjoy whatever, including the same stuff they found funny 20-30 years ago.

   These old comics who keep complaining about how it’s “impossible to be funny these days” are either seemingly bitter the target demographic of their humour is shrinking (So they are less popular than they were) or they’re just not good enough at adapting to appealing the modern masses.

   (Or maybe their personal views are leaking into their work too much and those views just aren’t that popular with most audiences.)

10. The problem is these guys don’t have the stomach to take the heat. Comedy has always pushed boundaries. George Carlin was not always PC in his era, but he was honest. Guys like Seinfeld are rich and soft. He doesn’t have a moral compass in his comedy, most of his complaints and ramblings have to do with being inconvenienced by life. Seinfeld should wonder about his legacy and if it will have the phrase “whiney b****” attached to it.

11. What is she talking about?

    Why just last night I watched my hundredth comedy special on Netflix where the comic bravely complained about all the jokes you can’t tell anymore right before telling them!

12. Comedy is an ever-changing art form and it will always be this way. People laugh at different things than they did 20 years ago. It doesn’t mean people laugh *less* though

13. She isn’t a comic, what does she know about it?