Right-wing comics are giddy over Twitter's future, while those on the other side of the aisle say “if you’re a comedy fan, Twitter is about to really start sucking.”
, further lambasted his more liberal peers for criticizing Musk’s takeover: “These fucking thin-skinned, liberal fucking pussies like Sarah Silverman can’t fucking handle it.”“I think Elon is great for comedy on Twitter because banning ideas is never good for comedy,” Norton says. “Comedy thrives when you ridicule an idea with another idea.”morning show on SiriusXM, Norton describes his audience’s political leanings as “50-50,” and generally avoids defining his own.
Meanwhile, fear of Musk’s acquisition from the other side of the comedy aisle has driven much of the recent coverage about the future of comedy on the platform. “Musk’s handling of Twitter is terrible and he’s gonna turn the website to something worse than it already was, and suspending comedians only shows that he’s not a freedom of speech absolutist like he claims to be,” says comedian Mohanad Elshieky, host of the podcast I’m Sorry. “I’m still going to continue to use the website because every other social media app is bad and we live in hell.”, argues that Musk is proving himself to be far more humorless than he lets on.
“If Twitter were a comedy club, he’d be escorted out by the bouncer,” Kilmartin tells The Daily Beast. “But instead, right now the comedy club is owned by the person who throws beers at comedians, and it’s the comedians who are being forced to leave. If you’re a comedy fan, Twitter is about to really start sucking.”Right now the comedy club is owned by the person who throws beers at comedians, and it’s the comedians who are being forced to leave.
“Comics are getting kind of frustrated right now with the censorship thing, with YouTube and Instagram, getting demonetized or getting deplatformed, saying that our jokes are hate speech, when we’re really just trying to make people laugh,” she said. “So I’m just trying out every new platform I can to see what’s good.”
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