Dave Rubin: evaluation

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…Now, as political correctness spreads its tentacles, do you think it will reach much into actual comedy clubs? Where, when I go I still hear some fairly outrageous things being said. Not by everyone, maybe you’re more likely to hear racial jokes from individuals who are minorities or jokes about women from women and so on. But how is political correctness affecting the inside of the comedy club? I’m doing a little less stand up now, so I’m really only doing gigs maybe once a month or so in the clubs. Just because, as I said, I can spend more time doing a podcast where I can suddenly reach, quite literally hundreds of thousands of people like that versus a club I can reach 20 drunk people and it has less value. There’s no doubt that everything’s shifting in the political correctness, what’s happening is, you guys have probably heard about all these memes about Pepe the Frog and Kekistan and all of this stuff, which a certain amount of people on the left would have you believe are hate symbols or something like that. It’s actually just a bunch of kids just trying to get a rile out of people, it truly, that’s what it is. I’m in this at a very intimate level and I see this, where these kids literally, they send a picture of a frog to a celebrity and then the celebrity then amplifies it and says they’re under attack, and this really is happening right now. And then the ADL, which I think they mean well, they then list this frog as a hate symbol. This is really what’s happening right now, this is comedy but it’s coming from not the place you think it’s supposed to come from. How much do you think comedy is what’s sometimes called ‘a winner take all’ market? So another way to phrase the question is 20 years from now do you think there will be more or fewer professional comedians? You might say, for instance, “Well, you’re on YouTube, you’re really funny, I don’t need to go to a comedy club.” There’s this fellow in South Korea, Robert Kelly, he did an interview, he was trying not to be funny doing the interview, his two kids ran into the room, his wife pulled the kids back, it created a viral video, one of the funnier things I saw all year.…

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