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Silenced Comedian Won't Shut The Fuck Up (hard-drive.net)

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“Like a lot of modern day truth tellers, I’ve been silenced,” said Monroe in his Netflix special: Canceled Trigger Warning – Offended???, which he was paid twenty million dollars to produce.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, so this is satire of someone real doing this, and I'm out of the loop. Is this Rogan whining about people hating his terrible comedy?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's about Chappelle and Ellen having comedy specials on Netflix where they talk about being cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they are not even the only comedians doing this. It's basically a trope at this point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Anyone who is paid to say funny things in public and still manages to pull that punk ass move is automatically wasting my time