Perhaps in discussions of Louis C.K.’s half-baked material that leaked online in the past week, some self-appointed guardian of the rules has reminded you of the new standard for determining which jokes are acceptable: only those that “punch up,” not “punch down.”
Meaning? Well, the diktat to punch up is two words long and it intends to imply two things. First, that telling jokes is like hitting.
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