Real comedy is moral courage. The rest is entertainment. It's a competence, and I'm not sure one can meaningfully criticize comedy without demonstrating some ca

Real comedy is moral courage. The rest is entertainment. It's a competence, and I'm not sure one can meaningfully criticize comedy without demonstrating some capability in it first. I'd ignore an article like this, but when a guy who describes himself as an author, journalist, and columnist (yet still, not a writer) affects concern about comedians and comedy, I'd wonder if this is the best that the political forces aligned against anything that bruises their increasingly implausible narratives can do.