The Nuremberg trials of comedy

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Published January 10, 2019 2:33pm ET

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The Nuremberg trials of comedy — Reports on Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari demonstrate that Hollywood finds it easy to wax indignant about the scourge of sexism, but more difficult to live by those standards. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) | Evan Agostini

The “Wokes” are coming for the jokes.

Wherever you look, the “anything goes” crowd have become the “That’s not funny!” scolds. No wonder Jerry Seinfeld won’t play college campuses anymore. The clean comic of the 90’s, the man behind the most successful situational comedy in television history, says he can’t make a joke on a campus today because today’s Left can’t take a joke at all.

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