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Political Correctness in Comedy: Is It Making Comedians Too Afraid to Be Funny? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comedy is a sensitive subject. Different people find different things funny, and that range allows comedians to practice their topics on a small audience, fine-tuning it before it reaches a broader audience. This is an issue many comedians debate among themselves. They want to try new topics, new jokes, and fresh territory to see how the waters work. Chris Gethard speaks out about the difficult nature of testing new material, and what trouble it’s brought him. Comedians Jim Gaffigan and Lewis Black have spoken about very similar issues, debating the place of PC culture on the comedy stage. While Lewis Black has stated that being PC can only get in the way of his humor, Gethard has a different opinion. Sometimes, people do need to make mistakes. It’s only when a view is challenged, does anyone realize that they might need to change. Two views butting heads is one of main causes of change and progression. So Gethard does have a point, comedians do need the right to exercise their talents, and try something new – the creativity of comedy is refining the material until it’s at its best. But there is a line, of course, though no one is really sure where that is. Some lines that don’t need to be crossed often are, and it’s usually to everyone’s detriment. Gethard suggests a middle ground, the kind of humor he finds by practicing at college campuses. Millennials tend to understand PC culture much more than previous generations. As Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything points out, Millennials are the most diverse generation in America, with 42% identifying as non-white. They understand the delicate topic of race in a more clear-cut way than previous generations. Chris Gethard trust that college kids are a compass that will keep him in touch with good humor. And he also understands that if he makes a bad joke, and they don’t laugh, the proper thing to do isn’t to feel outraged or slighted, but to fall on his own sword. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRIS GETHARD: Christopher Gethard is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is the host of The Chris Gethard Show, a talk show based out of New York City which currently airs on Fusion, and the podcast "Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People," in which he talks to one anonymous caller per episode for one full hour and cannot hang up first. Chris has also acted on Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, Parks & Recreation and more. And he’s the author of the comic memoir "A Bad Idea I’m  About to Do." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: People do actively say, like 'political correctness is killing comedy,' especially on college campuses. And it’s very, very interesting because I think a part of it is true. I think I’m a very notoriously positive comic. I think especially with the show I do it’s like very, very inclusive. We just did an episode called 'The Gender Fluid Polyamorous Prom' that was all about just including every lifestyle. And I think I'm notoriously on the PC end of things and I still get feedback from people that’s like really in attack mode about issues. And I’m like wow, I live on the fringe of – I live on the liberal progressive fringe of comedy, kind of notoriously and I get attacked sometimes. So I can imagine people who are a little bit more conservative, I think less – I think maybe some of the more blue collar comics take it on the chin. But it’s a very, very interesting thing because comics tend to have this knee-jerk reaction of 'Well we’re creative people and our work builds by doing it on stage again and again. We should be allowed to say and do whatever we want.' And I think there’s a lot of truth to that. I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff. I’ve said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that’s bad' – and I never say it again because that’s the feedback I get. And there’s a part of me that knows so much of it’s Internet driven. If somebody had a camera on and put that joke on the Internet and it went wide I’d be like, 'No, that’s why I tried it. That’s why I went and tried it because - to know that it wouldn't work and that it would bug everybody out.' That’s why I wouldn’t want to do it again or at least fix the parts that turned everybody off. So it is tough. But I think the other side of the coin that I think we as comics need to maybe cop to a little bit more is like we are allowed to say... For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/chris-get...