Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
And trumping that..

Stewart Lee, whom I used to really like, and still do like his style. Can you match this smug ignorance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMvwNkPgwgg

This probably helped his career, yet others are chastised for far worse, and I think that's what grates really, the cutural norms are reflective of a broadly elitist position.
Just to highlight how stupid this is Stewart Lee’s whole comedy persona is basically a smug prick. How the **** can you say you like his comedy if you don’t even grasp that?

Lee's delivery utilises various onstage personae, frequently alternating between that of an outspoken liberal hero and that of a depressed failure and champagne socialist. In an ironic manner, he often criticises the audience for not being intelligent enough to understand his jokes, saying they would prefer more simplistic material,
If anything sums up cancel culture and outrage it’s James’s reaction here.