“The problem with cancel culture jokes is that they’re often the laziest, least creative, and most poorly written jokes in any comic’s repertoire. What comedians see as righteous outrage is simply dissatisfaction.”

If you’ve watched a standup routine in the past couple of years, it’s likely that you’ve seen a comic rage against cancel culture, framing the (fake) trend as a threat to comedic freedom and expression. The thing is: That’s simply not true. Bad jokes are bad jokes, as David Dennis, Jr. explains in his…