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When the fashionable beliefs of our time are imposed onto historical works of art, they are invariably denuded of much of their profundity.

— Andrew Doyle

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You have a minority of activists with incredible power in society who are treating their own extremist views and presenting them as though we've reached an established consensus in society, and it's not true.

What the activists did to comedy insofar is they were expecting audiences to sit there, hear the joke, assess whether it was morally pure, and then laugh to endorse the point being made. And that's not how laughter works.

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