Why Dirty Comedy Is Somewhat Safe For Maybe The First Time Ever

Let me get into the nitty gritty of this new theory I've been tossing around

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I had an epiphany today. To be honest, I have a handful of epiphanies nearly every day. As I’ve gotten older, my epiphany mind has been less active. Maybe it’s because I’ve got kids to take care of, or I’m busy with work. Regardless, now when I have an epiphany, I like to really stop and give it more focus than I used to.

This one is a doozy, because it applied directly to me and my life, and maybe it also applies directly to you.

For the years—decades, in fact, that I’ve been performing as a comedian, I’ve written and told dirty jokes. I started as a foul mouthed open mic-er and graduated to a full blown verbal perv on stage. “Dirty Folk Rock” was the brand I’ve built over the years; twisted ditties a la Joni Mitchell meets Liz Phair.

When I was first starting out, comedy was something of the wild west, still. There’s never been an HR department in comedy, and for years, comedians have enjoyed the luxury of running amok in a relatively under-the-radar environment.

But as comedy became a multi-billion dollar industry; as the potential for comics and businesses to make six and seven figures increased, that changed.

Here are some other things that affected major change in comedy: social media / content-profiting, Me Too, Black Lives Matter, and finally, the one I want to focus on most for purpose of this particular epiphany—Trump’s rise to political power and the growing political divide.

Jerry Seinfeld and so many others have famously commented on the inability to tell their jokes anymore, because woke America won’t laugh at them, because they’re too judgmental now or don’t get comedy or whatever they think the reasoning is.

And maybe there is some truth to that.

But dirty comedy is an especially interesting area right now, and here’s why: