Steve Harvey On Cancel Culture – “It “Killed” Comedy”

Steve Harvey is fed up with the cancel culture. The television host and comedian recently discussed how society’s obsession with ending careers and how policing humor is destroying comedy. While promoting his new show, “Judge Harvey,” the comedian and host went off on political correctness.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harvey said, “Nobody can say anything he wants to — Chris Rock can’t, Kevin Hart can’t, Cedric the Entertainer can’t, D.L. Hughley can’t. I can go down the list. The only person that can say what they want to say on stage is Dave Chappelle because he’s not sponsor-driven. He’s subscription.”

Harvey claims that cancel culture and political correctness “killed” comedy.

This is the reason why he will never put out another comedy special. This is why comedians walk on eggshells now. They are afraid to offend some random group of people. This is exactly what happened to Patton Oswalt.

Oswalt committed the unforgivable crime of posting a photo of himself with longtime friend Dave Chappelle. He then published this unnecessary apology, which people were not happy about since it mostly consisted of bragging about what a nice guy he is. Louis CK is still releasing specials, but he already lost millions of dollars. He even had to rebuild his career from the ground up.

Harvey said, “One of the reasons I stopped doing stand-up is because my wife told me God was about to do something for me that I didn’t know about yet. I didn’t I didn’t know he was going to give me this TV career, but he did. And it turned out to be the best thing that happened to me. But if I had tried to continue as a stand-up, there’s no way I could maintain a TV career because political correctness has killed comedy.”

He continued saying, “Every joke you tell now, it hurts somebody’s feelings. But what people don’t understand about comedians is that a joke has to be about something and somebody. We can’t write jokes about puppies all the time. The joke can’t be about bushes all the time. Some of these jokes will have to be about people because that’s the most interesting topic. So if I come back, I’ll have to wait until I’m done and I’m not done. I want to do one more. I’ll probably have to call it, ‘Well, this is it.’”

Sadly, the cancel culture affects ordinary people rather than the major players. There are people who simply want to be offended. And with only 280 characters of text, you can easily describe an event as the BEST or WORST. Even so, the Internet is not completely to blame. The media has played a major role in our polarization. When things seem to be going well, no one watches the news.

If we are to battle the cancel culture, we must first ignore the trolls. The vast majority of those shouting about people don’t even look at the performers they want to be banned from the air. So why bother paying attention to them? When you get off Twitter and into real life, you’ll notice that people don’t mind when a comedian says something “mean.”

Simply because the majority of people can understand a joke when it is just that – a joke.