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The following is an excerpt from Lou Perez’s book, <\/em> That Joke Isn\u2019t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I wish I could quit social media. Not just a few of the platforms—but the whole thing. The longest I have ever gone without it were the two weeks my wife and I were on our honeymoon in France and Iceland, two countries where it is easy to log off, eat, drink, and try to make a baby.<\/p>\n

I realized that life is much happier when lived offline—especially when you don\u2019t feel the need to post the best takes of your happiness for others to see. (Just scroll down my wall for evidence to back up my claim.)<\/p>\n

Overall, social media has been great for me though. Chances are if you\u2019re reading this it\u2019s because some coder in Silicon Valley is our nexus. Thanks to those smart men on the spectrum, I have been able to find and build an audience online.<\/p>\n

There are downsides, of course. Anyone who has ever been the victim of a social media mobbing or has been cancelled can tell you that.<\/p>\n

You know, I don\u2019t think people get fired anymore for being bad at their job. Instead, their employer waits for them to go viral for any of the reasons you do not want to go viral: writing or sharing the wrong tweet or starring in the latest context-free, thirty-second video recorded on a smart phone.<\/p>\n

The only thing I like about cancel culture are the career murder\/suicides. That\u2019s when the person who gets someone canceled opens him or herself up to scrutiny and ends up getting cancelled too. (Sometimes, by the same mob they whipped up.)<\/p>\n

For my purposes, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how social media has blurred the line between comedian and civilian—in that it has given non-comedians the opportunity to dip into comedy by tweeting out jokes or sharing memes here and there and then going about their noncomedy lives.<\/p>\n

Most of the people I follow online aren\u2019t comedians—and yet they have some of the funniest, most original takes. It\u2019s an added challenge to comics—but a necessary one—to stay fresh.<\/p>\n

If comedy is your job, you have to create original material and find new angles on topics that have been hammered to death by other comedians, late-night hosts, and now, Kevin in accounting.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the Trump challenge to comedians I described earlier in the book—but for everything!<\/p>\n

Where this becomes a problem though is now that Kevin in accounting is mixing it up online, it\u2019s like comedians are being judged by the same HR rules that govern Kev\u2019s workplace.<\/p>\n

Comedians always have been the ones who can say what you\u2019re not allowed to say in the office. But now you have scolds demanding comics apologize for their work or take down their offending material.<\/p>\n

I used to point to The Office<\/em> as an easy example of the real world versus a fictional world. In the real world, Michael Scott would never make it out of season one of the sitcom with his job intact—but Steve Carrell could make it seven seasons playing the problematic manager at Dunder Mifflin.<\/p>\n

We understand the difference between the two worlds. The real world is supposed to punish and stop bad behavior, while the fictional world is supposed to acknowledge the bad behavior and squeeze it for every ounce of funny you can get out it.<\/p>\n

Then the most meta thing happened: Comedy Central pulled the \u201cDiversity Day\u201d episode of The Office<\/em> from its rotation. In case you haven\u2019t seen it—and if you don\u2019t have the DVD box set there\u2019s a chance one day you never will—Michael Scott, a white man, made the braindead, insensitive, socially retarded decision to perform Chris Rock\u2019s legendary N-word-laden routine \u201cNiggas vs. Black People\u201d in the workplace, and in response corporate is forced to send in a diversity lecturer. By today\u2019s standards the episode is problematic—but it\u2019s still hilarious. Just like Rock\u2019s bit (which I will discuss further, later).<\/p>\n

The culture is getting silly. Very silly. I know producers who have had to sit through similar lectures as Michael Scott and his Scranton office had to sit through, lest they risk running afoul of workplace harassment laws.<\/p>\n

Comedians have had to listen to corporate attorneys explain to them how improper jokes can constitute harassment in the workplace. How intent doesn\u2019t matter—only impact. And how providing a safe and healthy work environment—both on set and in the writer\u2019s room—means being very careful about what you say to your creative partners. Because while you might be okay with teasing one another, a third-party who happens to witness it could take offense. And nobody wants that.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have more options today and not all of us have to sit through a diversity seminar to make a product or a living, which is why I\u2019ll probably never be able to quit social media. But I will try to live as much life off of it as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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