The co-founder of a new comedy club in London has criticised the cultural “gatekeepers” who prevent the public from seeing edgy comedians who do not conform to political correctness. Andy Shaw, co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, told NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, “There’s a huge disjoint between the cultural curators who think they know what’s best…

Comedians in Canada are finding it increasingly harder to get gigs, with some saying they have encountered backlash, threats, and cancelled shows due to their approach to making people laugh. Lizzy Stanton is a Vancouver-based stand-up comic who claims her jokes have gotten her banned from most venues because many owners and managers don’t want…

Citing a Supreme Court of Canada decision late last year that some welcomed as a win for free speech, the Quebec human rights commission has dropped many cases of alleged discriminatory comments, a precedent that may impact other provinces. Last October, the country’s highest court ruled 5–4 that jokes by a Quebec comedian mocking a…

Comedian Mort Sahl, who was widely considered the father of modern political satire, died on Tuesday. He was 94. His friend Lucy Mercer said that he died “peacefully” at his home in Mill Valley, California. The cause was “old age,” she said. Sahl have mocked every president from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump, although he acknowledged…