Name: Could You Make an Edgy Comedy Today?
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Could You Make an Edgy Comedy Today?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-13. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
We were talking today, or yesterday rather, with Russell Peters about when was
the last time you saw a good comedy movie and can you make a good comedy movie
anymore?
Or have they made it so dangerous in terms of being cancelled that comedy
movies are no longer something you can do?
There's a movie called, I think it's called The Overnighters. I might need to
double check on that.
The guy, I think his name's Adam Scott. Is that a guy? A comic actor? And then,
who's the guy from Rushmore? Who's great? Jason Schwartzman. It's Jason Schwartzman
and Adam Scott. I think it's called The Overnighters, and it's fucking
hilarious.
And how long ago did it come out?
I might need a check on that, too. Maybe five years ago? Four years ago?
Yeah, that's about the cutoff.
It's a really low-budget, all-in-one-place movie, and it's hysterical, I think.
I would wonder, what is the cutoff in terms of when was the last time?
A really good...
The Overnight.
The Overnight.
The Overnight.
Is that it?
2015.
Yeah.
Like, when was the last time there was, like, an edgy comedy?
This one's not edgy, but...
But it's good.
I mean, I guess there's some...
It depends on what...
Edgy means so many different things to different people, but it's really
fucking funny.
You know what I watched the other day?
Super bad.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Holy shit.
You could never make that movie today.
It's amazing how many things just a few years later...
I mean, the new Borat, I thought, was pretty funny.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that...
But that's a weird one, right?
Like, he figured out a loophole.
You're kind of doing parody, and you're doing this thing where you're freaking
people out,
like when she has her period at the dance-off.
Right.
You know, like, there's things that he could get away with in that...
It's a beautiful genre in that regard, right?
You could do stuff in a kind of parody movie that you can't do in a regular
movie.
Yes.
But don't you find there's never been...
Maybe I'm wrong.
I feel like...
Maybe I'm such a comedy cunt that I'm like...
Don't you feel like there's never been a ton of great comedy films?
I feel like there's, like, a few a decade.
It's hard to do a movie.
Like, I watched Step Brothers the other night.
It's another movie you could never do today.
It's...
I think it's hard to do those.
Like, some people just...
Like, Judd Apatow's really good at making those kind of movies, or was really
good.
I don't know if he's made one of those kind of movies in a while, but those,
like, really ridiculous, over-the-top movies.
But the language and the subject matter, and it's like the stuff that they talk
about and say to each other,
I just don't think you can do that today.
Or if you did do that, you would face a tremendous amount of criticism, even
though most people agree.
Like, if you try to watch Step Brother today, fucking rock-solid funny movie,
man.
Really funny.
Right.
I was crying.
Like, crying, laughing.
There's some really funny moments in that movie where you're like, I forgot how
good this is.
When he rubs his balls over the dude's drum set.
Right.
Like, there's so many of these moments where you're like, this is so crazy.
But it feels like now people are getting more comedy from podcasts and stand-up
than movies because it's making...
Like, I watched the Oscars, and, like, they didn't even make a joke.
There was, like, zero jokes because everybody's so afraid to be funny.
Who hosted the Oscars this year?
I think there was no host.
It was just like, we just bring people up.
I mean, they weren't even, like, attempting to do jokes.
The only jokes were the voiceover lady that says, like, stay tuned, coming up,
Brad Pitt.
I swear to God, Brad Pitt's coming.
That was, like, the only attempt at humor.
It was, like, really...
Well, when Kevin Hart didn't do it because they wanted him to apologize for
jokes that were homophobic for many years ago.
And he said, look, I'm not going to do this.
I've already apologized for those jokes.
I evolved.
I grew.
I'm not the same person anymore.
And that's fine.
I don't need to do it.
You know?
And then they didn't have a host that year, I believe.
And I think that's it.
I don't think they've had a host since then.
Right?
I don't know.
You might be right about that.
I know the one year they had two, it was James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted
it.
Oh, okay.
Because they went non-comics.
But it does feel like, right now, it's, like, rude to even try to be funny on
that high level.
Yeah.
It's very bizarre.
I was listening to a podcast the other day that I love, that's sort of like a
mental health podcast.
And this lady was telling the host, who's like a straight white guy, he was
like, I'm learning about privilege.
And he was saying, even my self-deprecating humor is a little bit offensive
because it's my privilege to do self-deprecating humor because as a straight
white male, people assume I'm joking, but other people couldn't make such jokes
because of whatever history.
And they were literally discussing earnestly how straight white men shouldn't
really try to be funny.
Was that guy a castrato?
It felt a little castrato-y.
Yeah.
I mean, it was just a really bizarre conversation.
You can never be woke enough.
That's the problem.
It keeps going.
It keeps going further and further and further down the line.
And if you get to the point where you capitulate, where you agree to all these
demands, it will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk.
Right.
Because it's your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have
been silenced throughout history.
It will be, you're not allowed to go outside because so many people were
imprisoned for so many years.
I mean, I'm not joking.
No, I know.
I know.
It really will get there.
It's that crazy.
Yeah.
We just got to be nice to each other, man.
And there's a lot of people that are taking advantage of this weirdness in our
culture, and then that becomes their thing.
Their thing is calling people out for their privilege, calling people out for
their position.
You know, it's fucking crazy times.
Yeah, most definitely.
But I do feel like there's more, it feels like I hear more people sort of
speaking out against that kind of stuff than I hear from people saying that's a
good idea.
Like, I think there's way more people that are like, what?
That's insane.
Well, especially in our circles.
True.
Yeah, maybe I'm in a bubble.
I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, we're definitely in a comedy bubble.
I mean, this is what we do.
We talk shit.
Right.
You know, when you talk shit and you see something stupid like that, like, as a
straight white man, I shouldn't be self-deprecating.
Like, bitch, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Yeah, I mean, I'm in a lot of trouble if we can't do that.
Yeah, we're humans.
If you're a human being, you should be able to express yourself.
You shouldn't have to take into account all the other people that are either
not heard or not expressing themselves currently or not in the same, you know,
whatever category is.
You're like, come on, man.
We can't do that.
Because what you're doing is you're forcing yourself to think double and triple
about every single fucking thing you say and whether or not you have the right
to say it, whether or not you have the right to express yourself.
Yeah, and then nobody's having fun.
That doesn't seem like a fun way to live at all.
It's a terrible way to live.
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