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Countering Nazis in Naarm/Melbourne

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What Is Autistic Standup Comedy

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They Want Us To Feel Like Losers

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A Bus, A Tram, An Open Mic And Three Drunks

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An Argument Against Free Speech In Comedy

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Incel Comedy Night

I ended my hiatus from standup comedy last week and gosh it’s nice to be in comedy rooms with incels and at least one guy who could be a nazi. A young comic said that coming back after five years I must be bowled over by the wokeness going on. I had no idea how to answer because we had both just watched a dude going on and on about Auschwitz. I mean sure, he had some idea what he was doing. He didn’t just drop us in a pile of jokes about striped pyjamas, he prepped us by first making sure we all knew he was a racist. I don’t understand what’s going on. There’s too much wokeness? Over the last week I’ve seen comics talking shit that only complete fuckwits would have bothered with ten years ago. I had a talk with a comic about this guy we both saw doing an endless bit about the F-word and the N-word. I walked away from this chat not wanting to talk about comedy with any more open mic comics. I reckon it’s fucking podcasts that have fucked everything up. Young dudes are wandering arou