Comedy can be one of the greatest weapons for good the world has ever known. It can access parts of people's hearts and minds that severity just can't, and make people welcome perspectives that they would've been hesitant to engage with normally. Also, and I'd say this is the most important part for society, it slays sacred cows in a way that debate and logic just can't.
Now, if you're of the authoritarian persuasion, comedy would be something super dangerous to you. The last thing you want is someone blowing the lid off your narratives and agendas by making people not take it seriously enough. In America, you can't outright ban jokes, but what you can do is make something seem so important and untouchable that making light of it is socially dangerous.
Sure enough, this avenue works to keep people quiet. Not only that, it's convinced some people that joking is actually cruel and immoral.
Like commenting on some women's clothing at the gym.
We are currently on day six of the internet's outrage about a joke Shane Gillis told on SNL. The joke was, for all intents and purposes, worth a few chuckles, but no one saw it as something that would go in the hall of fame. If no one made a big deal about it, most people would've already forgotten it. The issue is that he crossed a line that the Left drew very clearly.
He made fun of "women's empowerment." Or, at least, that's what they think he did.
I won't go back into my thoughts about the joke. If you want to do that, you can read my previous article yourself.
What I think is hilarious about the entire debacle, even more hilarious than the joke itself, is that so many people got up in arms because Gillis dared to question something feminists can't seem to make up their minds on, exposing their morality as something that's more hive mind than not. We knew that already, but reminders are important, I feel.
Nothing proves that this is a social thing for the Left quite like a video that's been making the rounds from a woman who claimed she studied comedy in school. Watching the video, you first find it hard to believe she did because she suggests Gillis broke a lot of rules about comedy but lists none of them. When she finally gets to the part where she lists the wrongs he'd done for the art, she stops making it about art and starts making it about joking about women and how her peers wouldn't have approved of it if she had brought the sketch to them.
If you went to college for comedy you probably aren’t a comedian https://t.co/cK3uyVfT6I
— Kenny Webster (@KennethRWebster) October 14, 2026
Okay, first off, whatever comedy school she went to (if she went at all), she needs her money back.
The thing about comedy is that it's not safe by nature. It doesn't rely on the approval of a committee before it can be told. In fact, I'd say a lot of the issue with comedy today is that it goes through too many hands before a joke is approved for viewing on television or in films. We hear a lot about "millennial humor" (I take great offense to this kind of humor being put on the entirety of my generation) plaguing entertainment today, which includes never "punching down."
"Safe" comedy isn't comedy. It's propaganda with a laugh track. Either everything can be joked about, or nothing can be.
And the Left would prefer it if nothing was, or at the very least, nothing that falls under their protective umbrella. This includes women dressing like skanks in places they shouldn't, because they've tied it to empowerment and freedom.
Not Sydney Sweeney, though. She's not allowed to bare herself. It's too male-friendly.
But if you need any real evidence that the Left hates comedy, this woman points out that she would've been exiled from her social group if she had brought that joke to them. This is effectively an admission that they're not concerned about the quality of the comedy, but the social use. Does the joke assist in pushing the agenda and keeping the narrative strong, or does it make it more fragile? Does it please your peers in this ideological corner of Western culture, or does it offend them?
The comedian's answer is "I don't care."
The politically focused coward's answer is "Please allow me to taste the boot once more."
