When can we cancel “cancel culture”? Haven’t we all had enough of this exhaustive and disturbing social experiment? Our team is joined today by veteran journalist and stand-up comic, Rob Gavin. Rob, known for his reporting on the NXIVM Cult, dives deep into the serious business of being funny for a living. Listen as the guys consider if the whole cancel culture in comedy is more of a witch hunt that the actual Salem trials. As Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in “Young Goodman Brown”, “the fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.” We don’t know what that means but we aim to find out.
#27 Cancel Culture and Comedy!
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