While debates about cancel culture rage on at Edinburgh, a trio of performers are critiquing ‘edgelord’ humour, while still remembering to be funny
to bring current and former comedians to screen to discuss culture-war issues, have meant we are hearing the same debates more often. Only last month, UK podcasters Triggernometry were guests of Rogan, telling his audience of millions that the UK comedy scene is restrictive and rubbish.fringe features a number of shows challenging that narrative.
“You can talk about dark topics and do it well. Edgelords, their priority is to be offensive,” says Fairweather. “It’s people who are more preoccupied with offence than they are with being funny. They’re the people who will be, like: ‘It was just a joke,’ but they weren’t prioritising the joke, they were just trying to push it as far as they could.”
This often gets left out of the public debate, says Nicoresti. “The thing with this argument about freedom of speech in comedy is you’re talking about a collaborative art form – because you have to go on stage and get a laugh.” Many feel that branding yourself a “free-speech comedian” has become a marketing tool, helping people gain a profile they never could through comedy. “The reality is, if you talk about being cancelled, you’re rewarded for it,” says Fairweather. “They are disproving all of their points with their own work.” Conversely, she was told that as a woman, speaking about her own experiences in the industry could see her labelled as “difficult”.
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