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Nikki Glaser’s Jokes Need No Disclaimers
In her new special, Someday You’ll Die, she calls out comedians who add caveats to their jokes to make them easier to swallow.
Four minutes into her new HBO special, Someday You’ll Die, Nikki Glaser tells a supremely dark joke about women experiencing age-related infertility. A few minutes later, Glaser waves at this idea by launching into a tangent about how these sorts of content disclaimers have become ubiquitous in stand-up, too, through a joke about how suicide is a more dignified way to die than severe illness. They’ll caveat a joke they’re scared to tell because they don’t want to get canceled.” Glaser doesn’t name names, but a few high-profile examples instantly come to mind: Shane Gillis, who preempted his bit about people with Down syndrome in his February 2024 SNL monologue by saying, “I do have family members with Down syndrome,” and Dave Chappelle, who attempted to make his jokes about transgender people more palatable in his 2021 special The Closer by telling a story about his friendship with transgender comedian Daphne Dorman.
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