“Comedians Are The NYT Columnists of Entertainment”
Brandi knows how to speak my language. In “Thick”, I have a lot of fun with columnists at elite publications. I use these columnists as a proxy for cultural hegemony. Whether we think they should matter is irrelevant. They do and one of my jobs is figuring out how they matter for different groups of people.The comedy drama that got me going went down with Kevin Hart but, like those elite columnists, there seems to be a larger point to make.
Kevin Hart went on a new social media platform today to argue with people who say his latest special isn’t funny. They may also have been arguing that Kevin isn’t funny. I am getting this all second-hand because I am never going on Clubhouse, the social media platform in question.
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I am never going on Clubhouse for the same reason I got to wondering about why comedians melt-down: I want to always know my lane. Clubhouse is not my lane.
Dave Chappelle recently did a provocative Saturday Night Live monologue that manages to be both brilliantly incisive on race and pedestrian as hell (and bad) on gender and culture wars. Dave has joined many comedians in loudly, repeatedly bemoaning that “political correctness” and “woke” are killing comedy. Dave has been careening wildly lately between his lane and lanes best reserved for Reddit moderators. He isn’t the only one. Kevin isn’t in the same atmosphere as Dave. At his best, Dave is the very definition of a social critic. However, this week they share the honor of being comedians who really get it in some ways while not getting it at all in other ways.
I wondered if comedians have the same built-in reality checks on the natural limits of their creative lifespan that athletes or singers or dancers have. Creative lifespans are idiosyncratic, but are often special in the same ways. We can create forever but few of us will do so. It takes time to learn your craft. If you are lucky, your craft eventually meets your ability and you find the much-heralded state of flow.
If you are more than lucky, you are in service. That is when your craft meets your ability and your flow meets the zeitgeist. You are in the DEEP. No one can hang out there forever. You have to come back to the shore, if only to eat and maybe have some babies or pay a light bill.
Or, you have a wife and you do not have to do any of those things. That is when a critic or an audience or an editor or a new, bigger power forward shows you that it is time to go back to the coastline. No harm, no foul. You will still create but maybe your ebbs and flows are on a different schedule.
Dave and Kevin might need an editor as much as the guys who are all quitting Vox and The Intercept, that’s what I’m saying.
Maybe this happens in every creative endeavor but comedians seem to struggle in a particular way with the zeitgeist moving on. Or, it could be that I think of really good comedians as supremely tuned into cultural nuances. When they are so crudely blind to a pretty significant nuance — like, hey, trigger warnings aren’t a real thing — maybe I meet one of my natural limits.
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