With political correctness running roughshod over Hollywood, now is the perfect time for a billionaire to invest in a streaming service that prioritizes entertainment over wokeness.
We now live in an age where the Cancel Culture Clan routinely don their white robes of self-righteous totalitarianism and roam the comedy landscape of today and yesteryear searching for any heretics who have violated the ever-changing rules of the Church of Wokeness.
It was either Sir Isaac Newton, Huey P. Newton or Fig Newton, I can’t remember which, who once famously said, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” And so it is with the politically correct panic of our time.
This is why I believe that anti-wokeness is poised to be a major growth sector in the entertainment industry in the coming years.
Also on rt.com Comedians must never apologize if comedy is to survive in the age of cancel cultureMy idea to cash in on the current woke hysteria is to start a comedy streaming service dedicated to being resolutely anti-woke.
I call this streaming service… F.U.T.V.
Instead of the fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of the most fragile among us being our guiding principle, F.U.T.V. will make the unorthodox decision to actually treat viewers like adults and let them decide for themselves whether they choose to watch whatever ‘offensive’ comedy has been targeted by the snowflake Savonarolas looking to fuel their bonfire of inanities.
Caving to the PC mob
We just need a rich bastard with enough testicular and fiscal fortitude to fund this noble venture. There has to be some billionaire entrepreneur out there who realizes that as the corporate behemoths of Hollywood cave to the incessant bitching of the PC mob by casting aside controversial comedians, shows and movies, a gaping void is being opened, and an anti-woke streaming service can profitably fill it.
For instance, in recent years, a cavalcade of wildly popular sitcoms such as Friends, Seinfeld, The Office, 30 Rock, The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park have all been branded with the scarlet letter of ‘P’ for problematic, due to various woke infractions regarding insensitivity towards race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and diversity.
Also on rt.com Irony is DEAD: Axed episode of Fawlty Towers shows that UKTV fun sponges have lost all sense of reality‘Problematic’ is always the first step on the journey down the very slippery slope that inevitably ends with crucifixion by the centurions of corporate cancel culture.
These TV shows are huge money-making properties, but in short order they will be available for pennies on the dollar because the weak-kneed buffoons in corporate Hollywood, who are scared to death of the tiny Torquemadas of the Woke Inquisition, will gladly sacrifice their comedy golden geese on the altar of political correctness in order to appease the angry gods of social justice.
Stand-up comedy will fare no better as venues such as Netflix, which have branded themselves the home to comedy, have already begun to cower to the Robespierres of the Woke Revolution and pulled a variety of “racially offensive” comedy shows.
Fear of enjoyment
The thing to understand about the woke mob is this – their greatest fear isn’t that someone, somewhere is being offended, it is that someone, somewhere is actually enjoying themselves.
No matter what you do to appease these dour and depraved scolds, it will never be enough, for they are voracious and insatiable in their appetite to destroy anyone and anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.
Netflix has given an inch, and I guarantee you these totalitarian tools will take a mile, and won’t relent until the heads of Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and Ricky Gervais are on a platter.
Also on rt.com ‘Comedians SHOULD make fun of people’: Candace Owens refuses to get triggered by Dave Chapelle’s brutal mockeryComedy history too will be raped and pillaged by these woke barbarians as they inevitably push for greats like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks and Billy Connolly to be purged from cultural memory for the crimes of wrong-think and political incorrectness.
The goal of comedy fans everywhere should be to extend a giant middle finger to all these repugnant woke simpletons by supporting comedians doing what comedians are supposed to do – rebelling against the small, closed minds in the culture that are trying to censure, censor and suffocate them.
In conclusion, here is a top-six ranking of some of the comedians and their routines that are no doubt on the endangered species list in this toxic age of wokeness. Let’s hope F.U.T.V. can get funding and stave off the incessant waves of woke whiners and bring to a halt comedy’s impending extinction.
6. Bill Burr
Burr stomps on the toes of political correctness and jokes about sexual assault… both hanging offenses in the People’s Republic of Wokestan.
5. Richard Pryor
One of the greatest stand-up comedians of all-time would have a woke bulls-eye squarely on his back if he were around today. This penitentiary routine would certainly have raised the ire of the social justice Bolsheviks and their demand to “abolish the police.”
4. George Carlin
It is a tragedy Carlin isn’t around to obliterate the insipid vacuity of the woke brigade. There is no doubt that in 2020, the PC police would vastly alter his iconic routine of “words you can never say on television” by expanding it to be more “socially conscious” and applying it to everyday life.
3. Chris Rock
Speaking of words you’re not allowed to say… the electrifying Chris Rock and his blistering take on racial issues from 1996 sure as hell wouldn’t fly in 2020.
2. Louis C.K.
If Louis C.K. hadn’t already been cancelled back in 2017, he certainly would’ve been if he tried this routine in 2020.
1. Dave Chappelle
I’ll give the last word to Chappelle, who is public enemy number one of the woke because he is so brilliant at eviscerating their vapid, emotionalist drivel. In 2019, his Sticks and Stones wowed audiences, but PC critics deemed it “regressive,” which must be another term for “honest and funny.” I’ll let you decide.
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