Comedy Cannotjust News Today

Is more complicated than someone who would just say, "oh, the woke mob and the snowflakes," or whatever — im not that. i think something more complicated is going on, as i say, about identity, but one thing i am worried about is i think funny can be a casualty of that. so, when some of your contemporaries and brilliant comic minds like ricky gervais say that... i mean, he said recently he didnt believe he could make the office, that it wouldnt be commissioned today because the bbc would be too...

But comedy cannotjust be kind, because it willjust be nice and it will not tell the truth about humanity. and what you get more and more is comedy trying so hard to be warm and fuzzy that it tells no truth about humanity. you get it elsewhere. you get it in drama, in succession, written by the bloke who wrote peep show as it happens, but i think comedy is going a bit soft. right. so, if comedy really is about getting to the truth of humanity, is there nothing in david baddiel�*s sort of theore...

"be kind" culture behind it. thats a thing on social media, #bekind, and it sounds great, but comedy cannotjust be kind, because it willjust be nice and it will not tell the truth about humanity. and what you get more and more is comedy trying so hard to be warm and fuzzy that it tells no truth about humanity. you get it elsewhere. you get it in drama, in succession, written by the bloke who wrote peep show as it happens, but i think comedy is going a bit soft. right. so, if comedy really is abo...

Format and that show. you think hes over—egging it or...? well, i think some jokes he couldnt do. i think he probably could do the office now, but i think there is a larger thing going on. i actually tweeted recently about peep show, which is a brilliant show, an absolute masterpiece. and what i said waa that peep show is funny in a way that is hilarious about how shallow, venal, cruel, self—satisfied and unaware we are, that i dont think we can admit to ourselves any more. meaning that a lo...