As further evidence of the decline and fall of institutions of higher learning, I present this latest initiative from Cambridge University.
The Cambridge Footlights – whose alumni include Peter Cook, Clive James and David Mitchell – is now recruiting for a new ‘sensitivity reading’ service to ensure that ‘all student comedy’ is as ‘inclusive and welcoming as possible’. This is ‘to check for potential oversights regarding racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism, or any other kind of sensitive or upsetting material’ to suggest ‘things that could be rephrased or improved, or things that should be cut.’
The end is very near.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1660415740355432448
I feel like that guy in a movie who knows a meteor is headed towards Earth so he plunks himself down in a lawn chair on the beach and has a few beers.
If only Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock would avail themselves of sensitivity readers, then they would be as famous and successful as Samantha Bee.
Samantha who?
An actress. Bee movies, mostly.
There go the jokes about a lesbian nun in a wheelchair – oh wait, mocking religion is still okay?
That and old White men.
Yep, I am one.
Make that two.
Aviator
Mocking religion is ok, provided it’s Christian.
That is the most culture-killing directive that the UK has done yet. English whit is an artform that few master well; subtracting all those rules from the art makes it impossible.
They just want to make sure that no one is abusing the aboes … if there is anyone looking.
Could you imagine the skit that SNL could do over a “sensitivity reading service” if they were funny?
That raises a good question. Does SNL have cultural sensitivity apparatchiks on staff?
A more appropriate question is if SNL hase comics on staff these days.
They haven’t been funny since Operaman.
Wasn’t Samantha Bee one of the original “Killer Bees” on SNL?
Goodness, I shouldn’t have posted that, she’ll read it and put it on her resume.
I actually thought a Samantha Bee was a group craft activity, preparing sets and costumes for a “Bewitched” theme party. Something like a Darren Raising.
Comedy commissars – to make sure no laughter spills over to Big Brother. But I’m sure they’ll carve out time for the mandatory 15 minutes of hate.
THEY ARE ALL NUTS.PROVE ME WRONG.
Going to be awfully short shows.
That thread title: “Not funny”.
Reminds me of Fawlty’s exasperated question of the Germans at the dinner table after a series of unfortunate linquistic manglings that evoked unpleasant war memories:
W H A T !?!?!?!?!?!? N O T ___ F U N N Y?!?!?!?!
Y O U ‘ R E ___ J O K I N G !!!!
Can you even imagine the AAPI outrage if someone dared make fun of a proud culture such as this?
https://vimeo.com/154855749
Ohhhhhh mommmaaaaaaa son
That was funny Kenji.
I’m glad! We have to mock this thuggery and shame it with humor.
About as much fun as Star Trek next Gen without all the cool stuff.. Just the PRIME DIRECTIVE in a cardboard box..
?.. The business plan.. Our schools as important as they are have become globalist think tanks.. Sanctimonious sellouts chasing the foreign dollar (if you can still call it that) to keep the bloated lights on..
Operating as if they were nation states themselves..
Just as the Knights Templar grew too large for their breeches so have our? universities.. The have outlived and expanded their mandate to the point where they are a national threat.. We either deal now with the problem or we deal later.. Because its not going away on its own..
I bet the next batch of Cambridge comedians will be those who satirize the position of “sensitivity reader”.