Tag: Comedy

Cancel culture shows no signs of abating, with an online mob getting comedian Alfie Brown's gigs cancelled, and encouraging Twitter users to "bully him more".

Yesterday's largely favourable profile of Graham Linehan in the Times could be another sign that the tide is turning on the trans debate, though it also reveals we still have a long way to go to defeat cancel culture.

Comedian Samantha Pressdee has written a scathing piece about self-censorship, groupthink, and cancel culture in the comedy world. Naturally, her show has now been cancelled.

“This week I was the victim of two non-crime hate incidents at the hands of the comedy establishment,” writes Nick Dixon. Why do the custodians of mainstream comedy hate GB News so much? 

In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Ron DeSantis pushing ahead of Donald Trump, Dave Chappelle getting cancelled again and the hypocrisy of England's football virtue signallers.

Popular comic strip Dilbert has been cancelled by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started poking fun at workplace wokery in plotlines. Going woke is no joke, it seems.

The third pilot episode of the Weekly Sceptic is now out. Host Nick Dixon interviews comedian Leo Kearse and they discuss Frankie Boyle being too woke to cancel, how to save comedy and much more.

One NHS nurse urged lockdown-sceptic musical Scotch Egg to tour because "it's funny but it's also important. More people need to see it". Another NHS worker thanked the cast for telling the story "that we couldn't tell".

Described by the Telegraph's Neil McCormick as "smart and funny", anti-lockdown musical Scotch Egg is running at the Playground Theatre in London May 4th-7th, 7.30pm each evening plus an extra 3pm Saturday show.