{"id":1455130,"date":"2022-04-27T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455130"},"modified":"2022-04-27T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:30:11","slug":"mark-twain-prize-honors-propagandist-jon-stewart-ignores-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-twain-prize-honors-propagandist-jon-stewart-ignores-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain Prize Honors Propagandist Jon Stewart, Ignores Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-twain-prize-honors-propagandist-jon-stewart-ignores-cancel-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455130&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Imagine <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/3461897-jon-stewart-says-comedy-a-bellwether-for-democracy-in-mark-twain-prize-speech\/?rl=1&#038;fbclid=IwAR0tgo6TOEvyyUK4xcMxfnLt4UDNI6kkMhLaGlnc7iLJZfGyuwOgDcGQ4VI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gathering the biggest names in comedy<\/a> and leaving out an existential threat to creative freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The minds behind the Mark Twain Prize organized just such an effort Sunday to fete Jon Stewart for its latest honors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/thank-jon-stewart-late-night-profanity\/\">Stewart<\/a>, the driving force behind \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d during the Obama years, earned the prestigious award for giving birth to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/failing-up-low-rated-full-frontal-with-samantha-bee-gets-renewed\/\">Full Frontal,<\/a>\u201d \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/john-oliver-media-portland-violence\/\">Last Week Tonight<\/a>\u201d and other<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/noah-fallon-colbert-kamala-harris\/\"> late night propaganda outlets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some legacy.<\/p>\n<p>And none of the attendees had the temerity to take on Cancel Culture, according to press reports of the D.C.-based gala. That matters, in part, because this was the first Mark Twain event since COVID-19 paralyzed the nation and much of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>What better time to slay the cultural dragon that impacts every part of the comedy community?<\/p>\n<p>Except the guest of honor is on record saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jon-stewart-cancel-culture-myth\/\">Cancel Culture doesn\u2019t exist<\/a> \u2026 days before defending his good chum Dave Chappelle from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jon-stewart-dave-chappelle-cancel-culture\/\">Cancel Culture attack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/why-jon-stewart-woke\/\"><strong>RELATED: Is This the Reason Jon Stewart Went Woke?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s speech praised comedy for being a critical defense against authoritarians. That\u2019s wonderful \u2026 on paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first. It\u2019s just a reminder to people that democracy is under threat. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to music, to thought, to poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or, in the case of vaccine mandates which proved far less effective than advertised, people\u2019s livelihoods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2031568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2031568\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/right-on-hollywood-with-christian-toto\/id1586735077\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2031568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Subscribe today!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stewart even mocked those concerned about Cancel Culture mid-speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ain\u2019t the pronoun police \u2014 it\u2019s the secret police. It always has and it always will be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>How embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>That quip ignores people losing their jobs for using the \u201cwrong\u201d pronouns. It also diminishes what comedians face in our woke age.<\/p>\n<p>Self censorship, for starters.<\/p>\n<p>Even liberal black comics like Showtime standouts<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/desus-mero-self-censor-cancel-culture\/\"> Desus &#038; Mero<\/a> admit to just that. Others shape their acts around social justice, praying any problematic jokes from their past won\u2019t be \u201cresurfaced\u201d at the worst possible time.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Schumer, one of three recent Oscar hosts, noted she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/amy-schumer-says-she-checked-jokes-with-will-smith-before-the-oscars-3207581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prepared the targets of her barbs<\/a> in advance so she wouldn\u2019t get burned.<\/p>\n<p>Stunning and brave.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the fact that most modern comedians are either giving Team Biden a comedy hall pass or cheering him on. Millions are suffering through shocking highly gas prices and ballooning inflation, to name just a few Biden-era maladies.<\/p>\n<p>Our comic jesters can\u2019t spare a crack about it, though. Some truth tellers.<\/p>\n<p>The Kimmels, Colberts, Noahs and other Stewart descendants would rather pick on a Fox News cable host than the leader of the free world.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they won\u2019t touch this powerful leader, either.<\/p>\n<p>Cowards, the lot of them. Frauds. Jokesters, but hardly in the healthiest sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest irony?<\/p>\n<p>The event planners invited Chappelle to be part of the festivities. Was he told, \u201cix-nay on the ancel-kay ulture-kay?\u201d Or did he charitably focus on the honoree, knowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/dave-chappelle-netflix-cancel-culture-fails\/\">he\u2019s done plenty to address<\/a>, and battle, Cancel Culture as it is?<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t Chappelle\u2019s place to bring up the elephant in the comedy room. That Stewart, of all people, couldn\u2019t do the heavy lifting when the spotlight turned his way makes a mockery of the coveted Twain bust he now calls his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine gathering the biggest names in comedy and leaving out an existential threat to creative freedom. 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