Most mornings I spend my time going through tweets and reading responses from crazy people (hey, when your job is covering Twitter it’s just what ya’ do), and this morning I got SO EXCITED because there was a joke from Conan O’Brien about She-Hulk.
And it was a good joke.
Not a super amazing OMG I need a moment to breathe joke, but it was good nonetheless. Mainly because DA DA DAAAAAA … he dared joke about pronouns. I was like, ‘YES, this is awesome for Twitchy, especially with all of these people freaking out and lecturing him about how insensitive his joke is. Thank God, he’s not bent the knee, he’s not giving up, he’s fighting for comedy.’
And then … he deleted it.
Yup.
George Carlin just rolled over in his grave. To be fair, I imagine Carlin spends most days rolling over in his grave given the current state of comedy and the people with sticks wedged perpetually up their backsides RUINING IT for the rest of us but I digress.
Oh, here’s the joke:
Like I said, not great, but good enough AND he poked at the pronoun people.
Then deleted it.
It would have been so fun to write about him standing up for his work, instead, I’m writing about him caving to people like this:
Conan O’Brien tweeted a joke about She-Hulk, saying the full title was “She/Her-Hulk. a bunch of right wingers were defending the joke after people rightfully called out how insensitive it was.
— Vicky Nguyen (@Vicky_Wiin) October 10, 2022
Rightfully called it out.
REALLY?
Usually when a comedian gets to this point we know theyve lost any talent they had.
This is a bottom tier joke.
— Angel is a Menace✊🏾 (@_Be_not_Afraid) October 9, 2022
Be careful, people can’t take a joke anymore.
— Kelso (@kelso_sammy) October 9, 2022
Ain’t THAT the truth?
If comedians don’t start standing up for themselves and their jokes now, they’re done. They need to stop pandering to people who don’t laugh at ANYTHING because EVERYTHING offends them and just focus on being funny. Oh no, someone with 25 pronouns in their bio is mad at you for telling a joke … that same someone is probably pissed at something else as well because they are LOOKING for something to be angry about.
Tell your jokes and never EVER bend the knee.
