![]() ![]() You can go on Twitter, type “this person is bad, something should happen to them,” and then feel like “oh, I did something with my day.” I think people love to have this sense of, “I get to tell you what you’re allowed to do and what you’re now allowed to do.” I did it, I get that people like that, I get that satisfactory feeling. Being able to tell someone “what you’re doing is wrong and bad and you should be punished for it,” it makes you feel like you’re doing something. Especially because it’s social media, it gives them a sense of power. ![]() What inspired you to approach this from that angle? MICHELLE WOLF: My major takeaway from what’s happening with “cancel culture” is people are so excited to get mad about something. Most comedians seem to frame it as “people are too sensitive now, they can’t take jokes” but over the course of your otter bit that opens the special, you bring up what I think is a more accurate pinpointing of the factors at play: People have access too much information at our fingertips and it’s kind of driving us insane. I think it’s fair to say that over the last year or two there’s been this trend in comedy specials, both by veteran legends and newer faces, about “cancel culture,” or whatever you want to call this new state of social discourse. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I wanted to start by asking you about the opening bit in the special.
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