Stand up gay

As a standup comic, I am first and foremost a fan of comedy. So, when alabaster , cis-het, ignorant men like Matt Rife besmirch the craft with jokes about domestic violence, excessive crowd work clips, and substanceless stage presence, I have no choice but to step in. I did not spend my childhood glued to my TV on Saturday nights and my late teen years getting sexually harassed – I mean, operational – at a comedy club just for a bunch of losers to pronounce comedy gone by wokeness. Here’s a pro tip: If you hear a comic complaining about people organism “too woke” to laugh at jokes these days, what they mean is they (or their ghost writer) are shit at writing jokes.

If the crowd perform comedian siege on the internet wasn’t enough to radicalize you, perhaps the list of nominees for the very first Golden Globes stand-up specials category will. On this list is Ricky Gervais, who uses the “r” slur when referring to terminally ill children in his nominated special; Amy Schumer, proud Islamophobe and joke stealer; and Sarah Silverman, who recently got too high and defended genocide on Instagram (oo