British comedian Stephen Merchant called out the left for putting a “straitjacket' around comedians by enforcing cancel culture and limiting jokes.
British comedian Stephen Merchant — famous for co-creating 'The Office' alongside Ricky Gervais — called out the left for putting a 'straitjacket' around comedians by enforcing cancel culture. 'But you do feel like there’s a sensitivity to the words before they’ve even heard the joke or the context,' Merchant said in an interview with The Guardian. 'And that is inevitably a straitjacket of sorts – it quashes experimentation.
'And that’s easy for me to say as a White, heterosexual middle-class bloke, but it used to feel like the things you weren’t allowed to joke about were the very things you should,' he told The Guardian. JIMMY FAILLA'S 'CANCEL CULTURE DICTIONARY' TARGETS HUMORLESS 'TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY' AT WAR WITH FUN 'So for the older generation like me, you do feel a bit like there was a freedom there,' Merchant explained.
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