Comedy is an art where there is no instruction manual. Like Patrice O'Neal said, good jokes and bad jokes come from the same place. The comedian is just trying to be funny through trial and error. The attempt has to be defended. Rogen wants to raise the bar to impossible standards where, not only do all your jokes have to be funny, they have to remain funny, at least until your retirement. Of course, he's hoping that this gives his own work exemption from these standards.
I binge watched about literally 2.5 weeks worth of terrestrial audio on YouTube many years back. Patrice was insanely gifted, possibly the most naturally funny man I've heard, and knew never to give into the audience...to the extent of actively driving them out if a show bombed.
Hacks like Rogen in comparison have absolutely zero authority on comedy.
Not to defend the guy, but to avoid the strawman. He isn't claiming the jokes have to remain funny or claiming you can't try and fail. He's saying just apologize, it's not hard or expensive. If the joke isn't funny or ages poorly just apologize.
In my personal opinion it's never that easy. There are way too many people who get offended over the smallest slight. Also once you apologize once it never seems to be enough for this brain dead mob. There's a time and place for apologies and these self-righteous pricks aren't getting one from me.
If "cancel culture" actually worked in a logical manner I'd agree. If in a non clown world you made a joke that was legitimately offensive and refused to apologize I could see not being welcome until amends were made being a solution. The problem is the way it works in current year is you can point out that a man dressed as a woman being "literally a woman" is ridiculous and your life is over and no amount of apologies will fix it. Meanwhile Gunn, Silverman, Teigan et al can joke about being sexually aroused by children and no one in their space bats an eye.
Fuck that, if you made a joke that was funny, why should you apologize when it goes out of date. Do you see fashion designers apologize when their creations become tacky? Quit groveling and grow a spine.
Comedy is an art where there is no instruction manual. Like Patrice O'Neal said, good jokes and bad jokes come from the same place. The comedian is just trying to be funny through trial and error. The attempt has to be defended. Rogen wants to raise the bar to impossible standards where, not only do all your jokes have to be funny, they have to remain funny, at least until your retirement. Of course, he's hoping that this gives his own work exemption from these standards.
I binge watched about literally 2.5 weeks worth of terrestrial audio on YouTube many years back. Patrice was insanely gifted, possibly the most naturally funny man I've heard, and knew never to give into the audience...to the extent of actively driving them out if a show bombed.
Hacks like Rogen in comparison have absolutely zero authority on comedy.
I originally read your last sentence as Joe Rogan has absolutely zero authority on comedy because of your typo.
The ironic thing is that the quote actually works with either Joe Rogan or Seth Rogen
I despise Rogan too (though to a far lesser extent), so I concur that it works out well either way.
If "cancel culture" actually worked in a logical manner I'd agree. If in a non clown world you made a joke that was legitimately offensive and refused to apologize I could see not being welcome until amends were made being a solution. The problem is the way it works in current year is you can point out that a man dressed as a woman being "literally a woman" is ridiculous and your life is over and no amount of apologies will fix it. Meanwhile Gunn, Silverman, Teigan et al can joke about being sexually aroused by children and no one in their space bats an eye.
Fuck that, if you made a joke that was funny, why should you apologize when it goes out of date. Do you see fashion designers apologize when their creations become tacky? Quit groveling and grow a spine.