Stand-up Comics - each and every one of them - have no right to complain nor a leg to stand on when bitching and moaning about “censorship” unless or until each individual comic stops, ceases, ends, refuses or otherwise rejects the opportunity to perform so-called “corporate gigs”. Corporate gigs are - by definition and practice - at once lucrative as well as being rigidly censored by the corporation and/or agency funding the gig. Comics must sign specific contract addenda that specify language, topics and other subject matter that will be forbidden during the contracted performance - under penalty of forfeiture of pay as well as other potential liabilities.
Over the course of the past decade (actually, much longer really), the discourse surrounding the censorship of comics has - despite is cacophonous volume - been absolutely silent with regard to comics’ willful self-censorship when baited with lucrative corporate paydays.
It’s not that I’m unsympathetic, it’s that I’m disgusted by the rank dishonesty.
