The comedian Larry the Cable Guy just give a new interview in which he revealed how he feels about the current comedy landscape, and he did not hold anything back.
While talking to “People Now” to promote “Remain Seated,” his first solo stand-up comedy special in over a decade, and during the interview, he weighed in on the cancel culture that comedians are facing right now.
“Well, I think that the comedy environment sucks,” he said. “I mean if you’re not free to tell jokes, it’s ridiculous.”
“My crowd doesn’t care, my crowd wants to laugh and enjoy themselves,” the beloved comedian continued. “I haven’t really changed anything. I think it does stink though.”
Larry went on to say that the current climate has only impacted his act on social media.
“I think the only thing it’s affected as far as my act goes, is if I want to tweet a joke out, or something, you used to if you thought of a funny joke, you just wrote the joke down, send it out,” he said. “Now you have this little voice in your head going: ‘Well, should I send this one? Should I not? Do I want to put up with the hassle?'”
“Just the fact that you have to stop and think that, I think is ridiculous,” Larry explained, adding that he “never thought” he “would see the day that would happen.”
Larry then said that he does comedy the way “you’re supposed to.”
“If I think it’s funny, if my audience will think it’s funny, then I’ll do the joke, you know?” he said. “I’ve always run under the pretenses of if you don’t like the comedian and you don’t think that he’s funny then don’t go to his show, don’t buy his stuff — that’s how it works.”
“We’ve gone from, ‘That guy’s offensive, I’m never going to go see him again’ — OK — to ‘I don’t like that guy, I’m going to call that comedy club, making sure he never comes there to work again. I think that’s offensive,'” Larry added.
“I mean holy smokes, really? We’ve gone that far where you’re really going to do that? You’re going to ban somebody because you didn’t like the joke they told? That’s 4-year-old garbage,” Larry concluded. “It’s like, grow a set and get over it.”
Larry has previously opened up about his special, which he claims will give people what they need most: some “good ol’ fashioned” belly laughter.
“It’s the same good ol’ stuff, the same ol’ funny one-liners and I haven’t really strayed from that,” Larry said of the show. “My specials are a blast. It’s a setup-punch-setup-punch format. What’s in the trailer is what fans are going to see for an hour and 10 minutes — just one [joke] after another.”
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