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forwardslash · 3402 days ago · link · · parent · post: That's Not Funny- Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.
I think the changing culture of colleges is one part of it, but a bigger issue IMO is that comedians aren't allowed to fail as much as they used to. Comedy is a process, a performance which uses the audience as its instrument. Comedians have to stand in front of an audience and be allowed to see what falls flat and what succeeds. With the ubiquity of social media you're now just one step away from having your bad joke - which would probably be cut from a set if it bombed - thrown to the wolves of righteous indignation. College students might not be able to take a joke, but some are also at the triple point of online connectedness, slactivism, and the Dunning-Kruger effect.