In a cancel culture environment, are comedians pulling their punches? Are subjects like race and sex — staples of stand-up — now off-topic? Those are the questions posed to a group of comedians in TheWrap’s “Cancel Culture in Comedy: How Far is Too Far?” roundtable, part of the ongoing series, “Conversations on Cancel Culture.”
Nell Scovell — a writer/producer whose credits include “The Simpsons,” “Murphy Brown” and “Charmed” — remembers debating with Gloria Steinem over whether you can joke about rape.
“She was saying, ‘No, we really shouldn’t joke about rape,’” Scovell said, recalling a conversation from years earlier.