In fact, at one point on this tour, I sang the song that had that word in it and I stopped the whole band and just explained to the audience how language has evolved over time since I originally wrote the song - this whole diatribe about why I used the word then and I wouldn’t use it now. It was not a kind word, but it was not a slur. There are a couple songs in the ’80s where I use the word “midget,” which in the ’80s was not that much of a slur. In fact, there are some words that I use that are completely innocuous in North America which are horrible slurs in other parts of the world, which is something I also had to learn. But you have to realize that in the time they were written, they weren’t considered as much of a slur. Having said that, listening to some of my old material, there are some words and terms that I’ve used that have dated very poorly that I would not use in present day. It’s the kind of music that families can listen to on car trips and nobody gets too embarrassed. A lot of the material I’ve done just the last year in particular is pretty dark and twisted, but there’s no harsh profanity.
I tend to go for what I consider “family-friendly” humor. They opened up about the material they’ve performed that hasn’t aged particularly well and how owning up to it has helped grow their comedic voices. At the very least, not as many comics are allergic to criticism or being considerate as you might think.Īs the discourse rages on about whether or not political correctness is destroying comedy (spoiler alert: it isn’t), these 13 comedians decided that self-interrogation is ultimately a good thing. Many performers are committed to making comedy a less hostile and more inclusive environment for not just marginalized people onstage, but also the ones in the crowd, too. Of course, not all comics hold this belief. Apologies, accountability, and assuaging feelings are for suckers. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but there’s this school of thought that pervades certain comedic circles where jokes are just that and nothing more, so if you’re offended as an audience member, then you are too sensitive or don’t have the mental bandwidth to understand such brilliant joke architecture. To err is human to forgive, divine is a proverb that seems to have been rejected by a large sector of the comedy community.
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