Colin Quinn and Gina Yashere Explain Comedy on The Nightly Show

Last night Colin Quinn was a panelist on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore along with comedian Gina Yashere and political panelist Sally Kohn and the subject of p.c. and whether comedy should have limits came up once again.

Colin set the conversation saying said we’re living in the end times for comedy, where everyone on line is saying ‘you can’t say this.’

Political panelist Sally Kohn disagreed, and said if you can’t be funny without offending people, you’re not funny. Gina Yashere took the position that you can joke about anything as long as its not just gratuitous and for shock value. Her test is, can I do the joke in front of the people I’m talking about.  Colin argued that political correctness actually prevents us from talking about race in a positive way. “Nobody has an honest discussion, because justifiably they’re afraid they’ll get boycotted or fired from their job.”

The conversation moves on to Trump.  Wilmore asked his panel why they think people like Donald Trump. Quinn explained why Trump’s popularity illustrates his point.

“If people can’t speak without messing up, if they have to be really prepackaged,” Colin said, “you’re going to get the slickest people who just speak platitudes and bromides and golf clap. That’s our society right now.  Anyone who does something outside of that is going to be refreshing to people even if its wrong.”

Stick around to hear Colin talk about the tyranny of the mob and the Amy Schumer/Racism issue, and the rise of the new puritans.

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