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The Hypocrisy-Joke Trap


Comics don’t have to square the contradictions they obsess over onstage, but they often miss the point — and better jokes — for easy laughs.

He adds another tag: “You rolled around in the blood money, and, occasionally, when you wanted to sneak off and hook up with a Black dude — if you got caught, you said it wasn’t consensual! Take comedianand podcaster Andrew Schulz, who, in his 2022 special, Infamous, tells a four-minute story about witnessing a woman wearing Minnesota Vikings gear confront a Baskin-Robbins employee over a MAGA hat he wore to work. It’s why there are dozens of comedians, from Gabriel Iglesias to Josh Johnson, who have similar jokes about how rebranding “homeless” people as “unhoused” has no effect on their quality of life.

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