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So all the streaming services really are doubling down on the whole anti-"woke", anti-trans movement in comedy it seems.
It's pretty much impossible now to sit through an entire comedy special without the same tired shit being dragged up again and again.
The formula seems to be little bit of anti-mask stuff but acknowledging why they were needed, some half-serious jokes about the vaccine but trying to not to seem like a full on covid denier, gently segue into an anecdotal story about some awful "woke" person being annoying about something totally inconsequential that you have a differing opinion about but are definitely the one who is right, make a weird attack on people with some kind of restriction on their life that affects no one else but they disagree with to the very core of their being then they give up on the jokes and start the lecture on on Gender Identity and just openly mocking trans people. it's like they're all googling "how to extend a set by 5 minutes and draw more engagement" and getting the same mad-lib script to fill in with their randomly chosen buzzwords...
There's still comedians out there writing actual jokes but fuck me if that number isn't becoming vanishingly small and none of them seem to be getting any of the big streaming gigs.