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Patton Oswalt has defended performing with fellow comedian Dave Chappelle in Seattle on New Year’s Eve, calling him a long-time friend and the “funniest [comedian] I’ve ever met.” But Oswalt also issued a caveat, assuaging triggered fans by saying he disagrees “100 percent” with Chappelle on the transgender controversy.

John Levenstein, whose other TV producing credits include Kroll Show, was responding to a tweet making fun of Ben Shapiro’s height.

The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry said his satirical website enjoys some “secret fans” among “A-list Hollywood stars.”

Monty Python’s John Cleese has taken the preemptive move to cancel himself before Cambridge University’s student union has a chance to do so, after the body blacklisted an art historian who performed a mocking impression of Adolf Hitler during a debate.

By his own standards, Aykroyd would have to renounce some of his most famous performances and their lucrative residuals. They include the 1983 movie “Trading Places,” in which he appears in black face, and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” in which he famously used the phrase “Jane, you ignorant slut” to demean a woman during the “Weekend Update” segment.

Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle says that while he is “confused” about what they want to speak about, he will nonetheless meet with members of the transgender community, under the condition that anyone who meets with him first watches his Netflix

Ashlee Marie Preston, the activist behind the Netflix protest over veteran comedian Dave Chappelle and his comedy special, “The Closer,” has had a series of bigoted tweets exposed. 

The editor-in-chief of Christian satire website Babylon Bee accused Facebook of suppressing one of its stories Friday afternoon — an article joking about the viral anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” chant.

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher believes that the recent rise in left-wing craziness in America has created a bipartisan audience hungry to see “wokeness” mocked.

Stand-up comedy icon Dave Chappelle is no one’s idea of a conservative. But as his fans know, he’s also that rare mainstream comedian who is willing to set fire to some of the left’s most sacred cows, regularly cracking jokes about gays, transgenders, and the #MeToo movement.

Saturday Night Live paid tribute to its late cast member Norm Macdonald during its Season 47 premiere.

Actress Debra Messing has incited an online cancel mob against a stand-up comedian who was booked to appear on a tour to entertain U.S. troops overseas. In a series of tweets, the Will & Grace actress made unsubstantiated accusations against the comedian, claiming he is anti-vax, “anti-LGBTQI,” and supports insurrection against the government.

Comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” star Jim Breuer has cancelled two upcoming performances after the venues demanded that all ticketholders show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination.

Disgraced actor-comedian Bill Cosby is reportedly working on a television show and new book following his release from prison.

Actor and comedian David Spade slammed the woke mob and those who dig through people’s lives “to make sure sure they take them down.” 

Veteran late-night TV host and comedian Jay Leno says he will be dropping jokes that may run afoul of the #MeToo movement, stating, “you either change with the times or you die.”

Someone call Chief Wiggum. Bart Simpson is on the loose in Virginia, pulling off random pranks on unsuspecting school board members.

Actor and comedian John Cleese’s upcoming show “Cancel Me” will confront “cancel culture” and explore “why a new ‘woke’ generation is trying to rewrite the rules on what can and can’t be said.”

Toy Story and Last Man Standing star Tim Allen, who has lamented the dominance of the “thought police” and the impact they have had on comedy, joked about government agents policing his performance as he headed to Michigan for two sold-out shows after being off stage for over a year.

NEW YORK — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93.

The owner of the Comedy Cellar venue in New York City’s Greenwich Village says disgraced actor-comedian Bill Cosby is not welcome to perform stand-up comedy at his establishment.

Comedian Katt Williams has both defended cancel culture and denied that it even exists in a recent interview, saying cancel culture helps people “be more sensitive” in the way they talk.

Actor Seth Rogen has taken issue with comedians who are opposed to cancel culture, saying that cancel culture is “not worth complaining about” and that comedians need to accept that some jokes “age terribly.”

Reclaim Party candidate Leo Kearse warned that hate crime legislation will be used to target political rivals of the Scottish National Party.

Officials in Beijing on Tuesday imposed a hefty fine on the producers of a stand-up comedy show that was deemed “offensive” for unspecified reasons. It was the first case in which Beijing’s increasingly popular comedy scene was punished for content violations.

The Woke Nazis would not allow the gloriously inappropriate and problematic ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ to be made today.

A woke BBC comedian has called out Ricky Gervais for telling insensitive jokes about ‘trans’ people. Heres the funny part…

Comedian Dave Chappelle is urging people to boycott old episodes of his Comedy Central show, alleging that Hollywood executives have yet to pay him what he is owed on the popular but short-lived 2003 sketch series.

British comedy titan John Cleese has warned that even more restrictive hate speech laws, such as those proposed by the SNP administration in Scotland, will be “disastrous to the creative process”. 

Comedians Amy Schumer and Larry David are reportedly teaming up with former first lady Michelle Obama for ABC’s primetime election special VOMO: Vote or Miss Out, which is aiming to encourage voter registration ahead of November 3.

Famed British comedian and star of Blackadder and Mr Bean Rowan Atkinson has signed an open letter decrying the Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Bill, warning the law will infringe upon freedom of speech.

British comedian and creator of The Office and After Life, Ricky Gervais, continued his assault on cancel culture, saying that it is “not cool” to try to get people fired over supposedly offensive statements.

British actor and comedian John Cleese said that the woke mob are destroying comedy through political correctness, saying that many people who try to enforce the newfangled speech codes have “no sense of humour”.

Actor-comedian John Cleese is no fan of President Donald Trump, regularly mocking the commander in chief on social media. But the British star and the president are in agreement on at least one important point: cancel culture must come to an end.

The creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais, has called out the online “fascists” that want to shut down freedom of speech, saying that “if you’re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.”

Comedian Chelsea Handler shared a video on Instagram Sunday by Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan — widely considered a racist, antisemite, and homophobe — and declared: “I learned a lot from watching this powerful video.”