The World is Finally Starting to Follow Xmastime

I've always loved John Mulaney but is his latest special just what specials are gonna be from now on, hour-long deeply meta PR spin controls reacting to news the comedian knows we all know? - XMASTIME

I brought this up while recording last night's EGG FOO WHAT?! episode, and apparently some writer over at Salon was pretty much transcribing what I was saying in real time:

Cancellation comedy permits comedians to recycle their controversies into a staged performance. A distant cousin of reality TV, the genre lets celebrity humorists reflect on scandals whose epicenter they themselves inhabit. Given the nation's bottomless thirst for spectacle, the marketability of cancellation comedy should never be underestimated. All you need is a celebrity comedian, and a scandal. This lends the genre an inauthentic feel, none of which is lessened by its oddly "meta" nature. Cancellation comedy is about itself. We are not only watching a Dave Chappelle comedy special. We are watching a Dave Chappelle comedy special in which Dave Chappelle uses his comedy to address controversies Dave Chappelle created in previous comedy specials.

This raises the question as to what the purpose of cancellation comedy is. For starters, cancellation comedy is trying to seize the day and make bank.

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