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Back in the day, comedians used to love performing on college campuses. Their audiences were young, hip and appreciative of edgy humour.
Nowadays, not so much.
In fact, alpha comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy have — separately — essentially agreed that political correctness has so diminished their experience performing on campuses, that they are voting themselves off that judgmental and increasingly boring island.
Irony is viewed as a subversive element by totalitarian regimes (because, well, it is subversive), so among oppressed populations, mocking humour goes underground as a cherished symbol of intellectual dissent — explaining the disproportionate number of Jews in comedy — but withers among the literalist flock serving unitary ideologies like communism or doctrinaire Islam. Or feminism, as Dr. Greenfield learned to his chagrin and professional humiliation.