{"id":481555,"date":"2021-05-07T13:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=481555"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:05:49","slug":"its-becoming-a-minefield-billy-crystal-latest-comedian-to-voice-concerns-over-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-becoming-a-minefield-billy-crystal-latest-comedian-to-voice-concerns-over-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Becoming A Minefield\u2019: Billy Crystal Latest Comedian to Voice Concerns Over Cancel Culture"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fits-becoming-a-minefield-billy-crystal-latest-comedian-to-voice-concerns-over-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=481555&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\/05\/GettyImages-1142146393.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Add Billy Crystal to the growing list of comedians concerned that cancel culture is destroying their industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mr. Saturday Night told the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/06\/billy-crystal-on-new-movie-cancel-culture-and-the-oscars\/\"> <span>New York Post<\/span><\/a><span> comedy has become a totally different world from the one he came up in. Calling it \u201ca minefield,\u201d the white performer who was once known for his Sammy Davis Jr. impression said, \u201cI don\u2019t like it \u2026 you don\u2019t have to like it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Given the topic of his latest film, which he directed and co-wrote, its clear Crystal is giving a lot of thought to America\u2019s state of disunion these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/here_today_2021\"><span>Here Today<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d follows the unlikely bond between a young, black street singer (Tiffany Haddish) and an aging comedy writer (Crystal). He said the story offers, \u201csomething that we really need more of, the country, and that is empathy and that\u2019s what I think is the beautiful part of this friendship.\u201d He continued, \u201cShe gives up a chance for her career to move forward to take care of him. And I think that\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the Daily Wire<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-bill-burr-reacts-snl-firing-shane-gillis-amanda-prestigiacomo\"> <span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>, Crystal is hardly the first comic to take issue with self-appointed social justice warriors carrying out seek-and-destroy missions against actors and comedians. When Saturday Night Live fired up-and-coming stand-up Shane Gillis for old jokes Twitter users turned up, numerous comedians said SNL was in the wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe guy shouldn\u2019t have been fired,\u201d Australian comic Jim Jefferies said on \u201cLights Out with David Spade\u201d at the time. \u201cAre we gonna get rid of every sketch that \u2018SNL\u2019 has done that involves race?\u201d he asked. \u201cI remember (former \u2018SNL\u2019 cast member) John Belushi dressing as an Asian man with a Samurai sword; that was the whole sketch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On that same show, \u201cThe Mandalorian\u2019s\u201d Bill Burr, who also<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/she-was-an-absolute-sweetheart-mandalorian-actor-defends-gina-carano\"> <span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> Gina Carano after Disney fired her for voicing political opinions on social media, took a more pointed tack: \u201cWe\u2019re not running for office!\u201d he bellowed, \u201cWhen is this gonna f***ing end? F***ing millennials, you\u2019re a buncha rats! All of ya! None of them care, all they wanna do is get people in trouble\u2026If you go back 15 years into somebody\u2019s life, someone should then go back 15 years into your life!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And it\u2019s not just the state of stand-up that has comedy professionals worried. In 2019, Jerry Seinfeld<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/why-jerry-seinfeld-compares-his-daughter-to-a-baby-alligator\/18778424\/\"> <span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Amy Schumer on her podcast that political correctness is destroying sitcoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSitcoms are so bad,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has gotten so much more difficult to chart the culture. When we did my show in the \u201990s, it was so easy to make fun of things. You just knew what to do, you knew the angle you were going to take and you know it\u2019s going to be fresh and it\u2019s going to be funny. You know exactly where their [the audience\u2019s] head is at. We don\u2019t know where anybody\u2019s head is at now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for Crystal\u2019s advice for comic\u2019s trying to navigate an increasingly sensitive public, he seems to advocate they keep their heads down and wait the cancel culture moment out: \u201cI keep doing what I\u2019m doing\u201d he said, \u201cand that\u2019s all you can do right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Megan Basham (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megbasham\">@megbasham<\/a>) is the entertainment reporter for The Daily Wire. She\u2019s a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who was previously an entertainment editor and podcast co-host for World Magazine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this 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\u00a0<\/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>Add Billy Crystal to the growing list of comedians concerned that cancel culture is destroying their industry.Mr. Saturday Night told the New York Post comedy has become a totally different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277533,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1142146393.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018It\u2019s Becoming A Minefield\u2019: Billy Crystal Latest Comedian to Voice Concerns Over Cancel Culture","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1142146393.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018It\u2019s Becoming A Minefield\u2019: Billy Crystal Latest Comedian to Voice Concerns Over Cancel Culture","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}