In a similar vein, recently there is a trend of comedians making it very clear at the beginning of their sets that their job is to tell jokes and push the bound

In a similar vein, recently there is a trend of comedians making it very clear at the beginning of their sets that their job is to tell jokes and push the boundary of what is acceptable, as this is what the audience is explicitly paying them to do, and that these jokes do not imply that they have the same beliefs. They have to say this because people have complained and tried to de-platform comedians for their jokes.