Why comedy needs to be offensive


OPINION:

Does swearing offend you Do you stay away from most acts at the comedy festival because there’s too much bad language and rude topics

Australian comedian Dean Watson believes comedians are too rude and swear too much, as he laid out in this opinion piece on the joys of ‘clean comedy’.

“Clean comedy is what most audiences want,” Watson argued. “Comics owe it to their audience to clean up their act and get funnier in the process.”

“A lot of hungry comedians complain that there’s no money in comedy. Why not try being funny clean Your potential audience just increased by a couple of billion.”

Watson’s claim that clean comedy is what audiences want is debatable, but even if we take that as a fact, so what Tailoring your work to appeal to the majority is no way to create quality work. Most audiences want McDonalds for dinner and

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