There are very many truly funny comedians left. Bill Burr is pretty funny. Ricky Gervais can be hilarious, but his old shows and stand-ups are better than the modern ones. Joe Rogan and his friends can be funny, but sometimes aren’t. Kevin Hart and Dave Chapelle have their moments.
All that’s to say that real comedy is so rare that it’s quite a treat when you finally find something funny. That’s why we’re sharing this video, made by a comedian named Sebastian Maniscalco in 2021. In the video, he put all his relationships with Netflix, Comedy Central, and the others on the line to speak the truth that so few have the courage to speak: wokeness is ridiculous, as shown by St. Patrick’s Day “outrage.”
As you can hear in the video, he first said, “I’m taking a big risk here. I don’t even know if I can say this. This could jeopardize the whole thing right now, but I can’t stay silent any longer.” He then wished a Happy Birthday to St. Patrick and, following up on it, said:
“Is that okay? Or is Patrick, did he do something? Did we dig up something on him? What he do? Are we okay with the color green? Is that all right? Does someone get hopped up if someone takes out a green crayon? Four-leaf clover: are we all right with that? Leprechauns: how about that? The leprechauns gotta go, right? […] Pot of gold? He shouldn’t have a pot of gold because what? He’s fortunate that he worked hard and made his money, so he’s gotta give his gold to everybody else? You tell me what I can and cannot say. Aren’t you embarrassed?”
Hilarious stuff, and right on point: wokeness is absurd and destroys all that is fun and traditional in the same of saving the feelings of psychotic cat women.
Louder with Crowder, commenting on the video in a recent article, said:
Of course, he was doing a bit. No one, at least this year, is trying to cancel St. Patrick’s Day. I’d like to think it’s because we Irish are the last group to maintain their sense of humor during these overly politically correct times. Us, the I-talians, and rednecks. I’m just saying, I am, in fact, drunk as I write this.
But St. Patrick’s Day hasn’t been canceled, YET. All it would take is one person to be offended by one thing and tweet about it, and the holiday would uncritically go away. Singing “Fields of Athenry” would become hate speech. Celebrities would suddenly decide St. Patrick’s Day was full of too much “whiteness.” Politicians would look to score points off activists and have the name changed to Little People Appreciation Day. President Biden would sign whatever executive order about it after someone tells him to. That’s the point Maniscalco is making. Sadly, no. No one is embarrassed about it.
Watch him stand up to cancel culture and mock wokeness here:
It's nice to see a great #comedian step forward take a #humorous jab at what #cancelculture has become but sadly it makes you wonder what nonsense will be canceled next #SebastianManiscalco #StopCancerCulture #EndCanerCulture pic.twitter.com/5ZlCr6iRa2
— Sn00pster (@sn00pdad) March 18, 2021
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded Twitter video
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