Poor old comedy, now consigned to reclining permanently on a chaise longue, having swooned at the thought of causing offence one too many times. Poor old comedy, hooked up to the life-support machine, fighting off the virus of cancel culture. The live comedy spirit, more outrageous, more provocative, may not be making its way on to our screens in swaths, but that has always been the case. The bedfellow to poor comedy is the “it wouldn’t get made now” line, the equivalent of “it was better in my day”, usually used to complain about one trend in modern comedy, to punch up rather than punch down. Thom Sonny Green: drummer who lives to play liveThom Sonny Green: stage-struck.

Source: The Guardian December 25, 2021 17:34 UTC