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I wonder how much of the outrage around this is caused by standup becoming available to a mainstream audience in a way it never has before. Stand up has always
by etempleton 5y ago
I wonder how much of the outrage around this is caused by standup becoming available to a mainstream audience in a way it never has before.
Stand up has always been edgy, raw and, in many cases, intentionally offensive.
Stand up that had made it to the general public previously was censored and filtered and now you have an unfiltered routines out there that never would have been given the greenlight to be on tv.
- kobalsky 5y agothe thread I saw on reddit where everyone was outraged and talking about cancelling their subscriptions felt fabricated. I hate to put a tinfoil hat on but this just seems like ad campaign.
- krapp 5y agoEven before the internet, which has had edgy shit on it for decades, uncensored comedy had been available to the general public for a long time. I remember listening to Richard Pryor's routines on 8-track tapes. This sort of thing isn't news to anyone.