Icon Comedic Revival - Something I'm Surprised Is Not Happening - Yet?
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One thing I'm surprised has not happened yet but is something I think the US drastically needs is a touring group of the most well-renowned comedians on something billed as a "No-Cancelation, No Censorship" tour.  This would be a handful of the most widely known comedians traveling around while promising to deliver a no-holds-barred show of the rawest and most "dangerous" comedy possible and for those easily offended, don't show up.

I read where Bill Maher was lamenting about how comedians used to purposely go to college campuses to deliver some of the rawest and edgy humor and how that can no longer be done because college campuses have now grown to be bastions of the places with the easiest to offend people. 

I'm really surprised it has not happened yet and it really needs to.   I think it would be fascinating to see Maher, Rock, Chappelle, and people like this, along with a small number of up-and-comers, go out and crisis cross the country and hand the cancelation crowd their asses to them. 

I don't know, though.  Maybe comedy clubs are a thing of the past.  But this idiotic cancelation business has to be corraled, especially when it comes to when context and intent are not meant to be toxic or destructive in nature. 

And this crowd needs to be shown the door, especially when it comes to creative content and content that is often off the top of one's head.  Can anyone imagine the impact this entire push would have on someone with the mind of Robin Williams and what it would mean to him and his performances to have some sort of arbitrary type of moderation thrown over his creative brain? Especially when it came to his spontaneous humor?

Or imagine if George Carlin were still alive and doing an updated version of the words/phrases you can no longer say beyond his listed curse words.  Listing all the new things one could no longer say would be like reading the side effects disclaimer in a new drug advertisement at chipmunk speed.

 

 

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