Sykes reacted to comedian Kevin Hart expressing anxiety over comedy’s overly “political” climate, telling the Guardian, “To me, the whole complaint about cancel culture is a lot of men — especially straight men — who are just pissed that they can’t say things any more, y’know?”
The Chinese Communist Party appeared to belie panic over the growing popularity of stand-up comedy, an allegedly “Western” artform, in the country on Wednesday, celebrating a criminal investigation against such a comic for a joke mocking a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) slogan.
Comedian Dave Chappelle took a blowtorch to the lawless, Democrat-controlled city of San Francisco during a surprise standup set in the Bay City this past weekend.
A female stand-up comedian was heckled and called a “transphobe” after joking about Dylan Mulvaney, saying that Mulvaney has no “t*ts” because he’s still a man.
Comedian Andrew Schulz has blasted Democrat leaders for backing President Joe Biden for a second term in the White House, saying it is a shameful time for the political party.
Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston noted in a recent interview that “a whole generation of kids” now finds Friends offensive, adding, “You have to be very careful,” because comedians are “not allowed” to engage in comedy in the manner they once
Will Smith is reportedly “embarrassed and hurt” by Chris Rock’s Netflix special “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” in which the comedian addresses the infamous Oscars slap. Smith wants Rock to “let it go,” and it also upset that Netflix gave the comedian a platform.
Chris Rock saves the Will Smith jokes for last in his new standup special Selective Outrage, which Netflix livestreamed from Baltimore on Saturday.
Comedian Dave Chappelle shows no signs of making peace with the transgender activists who have waged a cancel culture campaign against him for years. In the latest episode of his podcast “The Midnight Miracle,” the stand-up great suggested that their favorite insult — “transphobe” — is the modern-day equivalent of the n-word.
Bill Cosby said he is planning a comeback tour in 2023, with a possible start in the spring or summer.
CARACAS — Venezuela used to be known for many great things, among them its unfiltered, satirical, irreverent, politically incorrect, and no-holds-barred humor.
Jon Stewart has addressed fellow comedian Dave Chappelle’s recent gig hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” during which he told a series of Jewish jokes during the opening monologue. Stewart said censorship and punishment are the wrong way to respond.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been compared to Hitler’s former chief of propaganda by a German current affairs programme over his pro-free speech stance.
Dave Chappelle wasted no time as host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live this week, delving headfirst into the Kanye West controversy during his opening monologue. In his signature fashion, the comedian embraced controversy by addressing Ye’s anti-semitic comments and walking right up to the line with a few of his own Jewish jokes.
Rishi Sunak has shot down suggestions from Trevor Noah that backlash against his premiereship was a result of his ethnic background.
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Redd was reportedly assaulted outside the Comedy Cellar in New York on Wednesday just before a scheduled stand-up comedy performance.
Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans came out swinging against cancel culture for its stranglehold on comedy and its censorship of jokes.
A “transgender” comedian in the UK has been praised after “she” stripped naked and used “her” penis to play the keyboard on live television.
In a “coup” for the upstart anti-woke channel GB News, British comedy legend John Cleese said that he will be joining the network.
Comedian Hannah Gadsby is set to host a Netflix “genderqueer” special, which will reportedly feature non-binary individuals from around the world in stand-up comedy one year after her public meltdown over Dave Chappelle’s The Closer, wherein she cursed out Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos.
Comedian Chris Rock slammed actor Will Smith over his infamous Oscars slap, saying, “the motherfucker hit me over a bullshit joke, the nicest joke I ever told.”
Jamie Foxx said the “sensitive” nature around comedy is preventing the release of his directorial feature debut — “All-Star Weekend,” a basketball comedy that stars Robert Downey, Jr., as a Mexican man.
Dave Chappelle fans have been raging on social media over First Avenue’s decision to cancel his show in response to woke outcry.
Monty Python’s John Cleese has once again blasted wokeness as a destructive force, saying it has a “disastrous effect” on comedy and serves as the enemy of artistic creativity.
Craig Robinson’s standup show at The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, N.C., was disrupted Saturday night by a gunman.
Comedian Bill Burr said that women, not men, have failed the U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) because women like to “destroy” each other rather than “watch that than a bunch of women come together as a team” in women’s sports.
Comedian Dave Chappelle is refusing to submit to the woke high school students who decried his last comedy special The Closer as transphobic and anti-LGBTQ, saying the more they try to silence him, the more determined he will be to speak out.
“People like real authentic comedy, and I think that they would prefer that than some watered down, corporate boardroom bulls**t,” stand-up comedian Andrew Schulz said.
Comedy icon Rowan Atkinson, who will forever be immortalized as Mr. Bean, attacked political correctness and its stranglehold on comedy.
Comedian and CNN host W. Kamau Bell is using Father’s Day to urge dads everywhere to take up the fight in favor of abortion, claiming that the systematic killing of unborn children is a human right that benefits both women and men.
Ricky Gervais is rich and famous and doesn’t give a damn, and may the God he doesn’t believe in continue to bless him.
Comedian Ricky Gervais took satirical aim at transgender authoritarianism in his new Netflix special SuperNature in which he mocks the woke left’s insistence that male-to-female transgenders who still have their penises be called women.
Comedian Dave Chappelle is under attack for making jokes about transgenders in a surprise appearance at comedian John Mulaney’s show on Friday.
New York comedian Tyler Fischer is suing a talent agency that he claims passed on representing him simply because he is a white man.
Comedian Chris Rock dropped some trash talk about Will Smith slapping him at the Oscars at a show Thursday in Los Angeles — commiserating with Dave Chappelle, who just this past week was also assaulted on stage.
Actor Will Smith is reportedly in therapy after marching onto the Oscars stage and slapping Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a joke at the expense of his Smith’s wife.
Video clips show rapper T.I.’s jokes falling flat surfaced to social media as he attempted to perform standup comedy.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that “The people who can’t take a joke now aren’t old ladies in the Bible Belt. They’re Gen Z at elite colleges.” And that losing out on jokes and
Apparently taking his cues from the Will Smith playbook, rapper T.I. recently harassed a female comedian at an Atlanta comedy club over jokes about his sexual assault allegations.
Oscars co-host Amy Schumer says she “wasn’t allowed” to make jokes about actor Alec Baldwin at the Academy Awards but actor Will Smith was able to assault the show’s presenter, comedian Chris Rock.
