{"id":281789,"date":"2021-03-22T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=281789"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:32:47","slug":"these-six-comics-could-be-canceled-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-six-comics-could-be-canceled-next\/","title":{"rendered":"These Six Comics Could Be Canceled Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fthese-six-comics-could-be-canceled-next%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=281789&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2654.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s not enough for today\u2019s comedians to make people laugh. They must stay one step ahead of the woke mob or face the consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It could mean losing the sitcom gig they dreamed about for decades, or it might result in decades of funny material being stained by one\u2019s \u201cthought crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The following comedians have avoided the woke mob\u2019s wrath \u2026 so far. Still, given their bodies of work, that may not be the case for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scratch a comic who lives on the satirical boundaries and you\u2019ll find someone ripe for cancellation from the intolerant Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Howard Stern<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The self-proclaimed King of All Media had a brush with the woke mob last year. A few of the radio giant\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/06\/12\/howard-stern-under-fire-for-past-use-of-blackface-skit-with-n-word\/?_ga=2.157802174.521482376.1616171360-2004411350.1614047584\"><span>racially charged bits \u201cresurfaced,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> and he had to confront a legacy which by any standard measure would end his career in a Thanos-like snap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stern didn\u2019t back down, though. His reaction to the cultural moment proved defiant, as he told his listeners he\u2019s a changed man who no longer traffics in that crude, offensive humor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s adorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Context doesn\u2019t matter to the woke mob. Nor does forgiveness or personal growth. So Stern got canceled, right? No. Not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stern\u2019s vicious anti-Trump rhetoric last year bought him some time. The woke mob picks and chooses its victims with purpose. For them, Stern was a deeply flawed ally in the war to oust President Donald Trump from the White House. So they didn\u2019t punish him for his past routines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chances are they\u2019ll circle back to him sooner or later. He\u2019s not the raw, outspoken talker of yore, but he spits out politically incorrect bromides now and again. There\u2019s a morsel of the old Howard Stern still in there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The next time he shares a controversial take, assuming it clashes with far-left groupthink, the very mob that gave him a pass in 2020 likely won\u2019t do the same again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Judd Apatow<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The man who gave us \u201cThe 40-Year-Old Virgin\u201d and \u201cKnocked Up\u201d once ruled as Hollywood\u2019s unofficial king of comedy. That status has taken a hit in recent years, in part because the director succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. He\u2019s more political now, more unhinged, like when he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/26\/dear-judd-and-kumail-you-have-no-idea-what-a-nazi-really-was\/\"><span>compared President Donald Trump to the Nazis.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>He\u2019s also not as consistently hilarious as he used to be. More recent Apatow films \u2014 think \u201cFunny People\u201d and last year\u2019s \u201cThe King of Staten Island\u201d (stolen by the great Bill Burr) \u2014 couldn\u2019t measure up to his previous comic heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still, Apatow has remained in Hollywood\u2019s good graces \u2026 for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That might end should the woke mob, and its Tinsel Town enablers, give some of his best films a fresh look. Not only are the casts overwhelmingly white, male and straight, some jokes are decidedly unwoke. It\u2019s bro humor, the kind that Apatow wouldn\u2019t dare write today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Take his \u201cdo you know how I know you\u2019re gay\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QoXyVYHoEPU\">segment<\/a> from \u201cVirgin\u201d as just one example of material that could lead to his cancellation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Seth MacFarlane<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This reporter previously shared how MacFarlane\u2019s \u201cFamily Guy\u201d features sequences that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/family-guy-8-moments-which-spit-in-the-eye-of-woke-cancel-culture\"><span>wouldn\u2019t pass woke muster toda<\/span><\/a><span>v. It\u2019s a primer on the show\u2019s bawdy nature, but it hardly encompasses the show\u2019s full comic spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most \u201cFamily Guy\u201d episodes traffic in rude, raw material, even if some jokes exist to reflect more recently approved takes. MacFarlane\u2019s team mocks fat people, Jewish people, Asian-Americans and more. Even the family\u2019s teen daughter, Meg, gets slammed for not being conventionally pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a show brimming with sharply thrown elbows, the kind of comedy that puts McFarlane on thin ice with the woke crowd. The show\u2019s writing team leans to the left, though, routinely mocking religion and GOP targets like Donald Trump and the Second Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That affords the multi-talented MacFarlane some protection, but not enough should the mob come for his career scalp sooner or later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Daniel Tosh<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s always instructive when a take-no-prisoners comic takes a woke turn. It\u2019s what we saw from Tosh during the recent, final season of Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cTosh.0.\u201d The fiercely funny comic started <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/tosh-0-mccloskeys-black-lives-matter\/\"><span>defending Black Lives Matter<\/span><\/a><span> along with pushing other progressive-approved narratives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wait.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is the same show that delivered some of the most bruising gags over the past decade, including a recurring segment called, \u201cIs It Racist?\u201d One such moment featured a black woman devouring a watermelon, the show\u2019s way of celebrating Black History Month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other unwoke \u201cTosh.0\u201d jokes include shaming less attractive women and playing fast and very loose with racial stereotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps Tosh thinks the show\u2019s woke turn might save him from the Cancel Culture club. And they could be right. If not, there\u2019s an awful lot of \u201cunacceptable\u201d jokes told over the show\u2019s run to put the lanky comic in Social Justice jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mel Brooks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The comic genius behind \u201cYoung Frankenstein\u201d and \u201cThe Producers\u201d keeps telling us he couldn\u2019t make his western satire \u201cBlazing Saddles\u201d today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He\u2019s right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet he\u2019s said it so often, and it\u2019s been repeated by conservatives so long, that the woke mob wisely stays away from it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s betting the same mob may circle back to the movie at some point, especially if the left-leaning Brooks shares a point of view that collides with its groupthink. Or, as sad as it is to say, the 90-something Brooks passes on and can no longer defend his justly celebrated film work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chelsea Handler<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>You could argue Handler\u2019s 180 degree comedy turn is a calculated attempt to keep the Cancel Culture kids at bay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The comedienne forged her fame by playing up her sexually aggressive, drunken persona. Think books like, \u201cAre You There, Vodka, It\u2019s Me, Chelsea.\u201d She was the beautiful wild child, and her jokes matched her shtick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The election of Donald Trump transformed Handler into an \u201cactivist,\u201d realigning her comedy material along the way. The newly woke comic begged us to forgive her \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and cheered new laws to restrict racism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c2 Chinese guys were arrested in Berlin for making nazi salutes,\u201d the \u201cChelsea\u201d host said. \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be nice 2 have laws here for people who think racism is funny?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately, she ignored her own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/chelsea-handler-ripped-as-a-hypocrite-for-condemning-jokes-about-racism\/\"><span>checkered chuckles<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is my aunt, my cousin Ricky and I returning from our nazi genealogy hunt. We\u2019re back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s one more:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAngelina Jolie has filed for divorce with Brad Pitt\u2026 He wants the China; she wants Pax and Maddox #sorrycouldnthelpmyself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She even used the Oscars ceremony honoring 2014\u2019s \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d to hawk her own comedy special.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCongratulations #12yearsaslave Go to Africa or buy #ugandabekiddingme&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1de1ka9\"><span>http:\/\/amzn.to\/1de1ka9<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;#aheadofthecurve #Oscars.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Handler\u2019s real privilege is being liberal enough to escape her tawdry past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not enough for today\u2019s comedians to make people laugh. 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