Seth Rogen Says Comedians Shouldn’t Complain About Cancel Culture - weed lol

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Seth Rogen appeared on “Good Morning Britain” this week to promote his new book, “Yearbook,” and he was asked to weigh in on his past movies containing controversial jokes (via Insider). “There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that’s the nature of comedy,” the comedian said. “I think conceptually those movies are sound and I think there’s a reason they’ve lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last.”

The question prompted Rogen to discuss the relationship between cancel culture and comedy, as many comedians have been forced to reckon with dated jokes that are no longer appropriate in the present day. Rogen said, “To me when I see comedians complaining about this kind of thing, I don’t understand what they’re complaining about. If you’ve made a joke that’s aged terribly, accept it. And if you don’t think it’s aged terribly, then say that.”

“To me, it’s not worth complaining about to the degree I see other comedians complaining about,” Rogen added.

When asked by “Good Morning Britain” hosts if he would have to search through his Twitter feed to delete controversial jokes made in the past, Rogen responded, “I was never a comedian that made jokes that were truly designed to target groups that were subjugated in some way. Have we done that without realizing it? Definitely. And those things are in our movies and they’re out there, and they’re things that I am more than happy to say that they have not aged well.”

“But in my Twitter, I’ve never made a joke that’s outwardly horrific in some way, and if you have, I would question why you did that,” Rogen concluded. “Saying terrible things is bad, so if you’ve said something terrible, then it’s something you should confront in some way, shape, or form. I don’t think that’s cancel culture. That’s you saying something terrible if that’s what you’ve done.”

Rogen is currently on his press tour promoting “Yearbook,” but his acting career remains as busy as ever. The performer has a supporting role in the Hulu series “Pam and Tommy,” starring Sebastian Stan and Lily James, and he’s also tapped to star opposite Michelle Williams and Paul Dano in Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical new movie.
 
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Sausage Party is an animated film about talking food that forsakes faith in God because they discover COOOMING. Seth Rogen is responsible for it.
 
The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all. By 1970 none of them was left, except Big Brother himself. All the rest had by that time been exposed as traitors and counter-revolutionaries. Goldstein had fled and was hiding no one knew where, and of the others, a few had simply disappeared, while the majority had been executed after spectacular public trials at which they made confession of their crimes. Among the last survivors were three men named Jones, Aaronson, and Seth Rogen. It must have been in 1965 that these three had been arrested ...

Some time after their release Winston had actually seen all three of them in the Chestnut Tree Café. He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye. They were men far older than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great figures left over from the heroic days of the Party. The glamour of the underground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung to them. He had the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that of Big Brother. But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two. No one who had once fallen into the hands of the Thought Police ever escaped in the end. They were corpses waiting to be sent back to the grave.

There was no one at any of the tables nearest to them. It was not wise even to be seen in the neighbourhood of such people. They were sitting in silence before glasses of the gin flavoured with cloves which was the speciality of the café. Of the three, it was Seth Rogen whose appearance had most impressed Winston. Rogen had once been a famous comedian, whose brutal comedy antics had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution. Even now, at long intervals, his shows were appearing on Netflix. They were simply an imitation of his earlier manner, and curiously lifeless and unconvincing. Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes — slum tenements, starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats — even on the barricades the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort to get back into the past. He was a monstrous man, with a mane of greasy grey hair, his face pouched and seamed, with thick negroid lips. At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction. He seemed to be breaking up before one's eyes, like a mountain crumbling.
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White Devil said:
Comedians who say comedy should be censored should be hung imo.

Seth should swing next to fellow nose tribesman Sarah Silverman.
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Don’t forget Sascha Baron Cohen. He actually gave a speech endorsing the censorship of comedy.
 
albert chan said:
Is that the reason where you almost implied that you think James Franco sexually harassed women despite lack of evidence that says otherwise, to the point where you threw him under the bus? :\
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I actually believe those allegations. Not enough to press him or charge him, but that's because those allegations lacked enough receipts. My folks are friends with a couple whose daughter does modeling work, she was dating Franco for a time and that dude gaslit her so fucking hard. He was constantly cheating on her and just being the biggest asshat. The daughter broke up with him eventually, but that was about it. He never did anything really violent towards her or assaulted her to my knowledge, but he's the kind of guy who thinks he can get away with anything or owns anything. He's basically the embodiment of the villain character he played in soap operas. That was him, that wasn't acting. He's that demented.

Of course you don't have to believe me. It's internet gossip after all, but that's my justification.
 
SiccDicc said:
I actually believe those allegations. Not enough to press him or charge him, but that's because those allegations lacked enough receipts. My folks are friends with a couple whose daughter does modeling work, she was dating Franco for a time and that dude gaslit her so fucking hard. He was constantly cheating on her and just being the biggest asshat. The daughter broke up with him eventually, but that was about it. He never did anything really violent towards her or assaulted her to my knowledge, but he's the kind of guy who thinks he can get away with anything or owns anything. He's basically the embodiment of the villain character he played in soap operas. That was him, that wasn't acting. He's that demented.

Of course you don't have to believe me. It's internet gossip after all, but that's my justification.
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Guess a celebrity is an asshole. News at 11.

I have no sympathy for Hollywood roaches like Franco, but "this guy was a dick to me" is not the same as "this guy literally raped me".
 
The Jumping Dwarf said:
Guess a celebrity is an asshole. News at 11.

I have no sympathy for Hollywood roaches like Franco, but "this guy was a dick to me" is not the same as "this guy literally raped me".
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It's more his attitude matches up perfectly regarding people who would assault. He's very greedy in his narcissism. That's the only reason I believe it, but I wouldn't charge the guy because as I said, the evidence was flimsy as fuck. I'll still think him an asshole, though, and that he probably does. I wouldn't ruin his life unless there was solid evidence, though.
 
Comedy is as much an artform as it is a commercial product.

Seth has chosen the latter. There is no reason to get upset. Comics have been doing this for years.


Bill is dead and Leno has a garage full of cars. *shrug*
 
The problem is, cancel culture these days isn't even really targeted much towards celebrities that can revolve back into normal life and just apologize for something and people just forget about it and go about their day, and even if you do sincerely apologize for something, you don't get to put it behind you because the hate mobs make absolute sure you will never have friendships, relationships, or a career or anything whatsoever ever again. All because you said or did something they didn't like, no matter how severe or innocuous it was, no matter how true the accusations are or not.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
While I agree with pointing out hypocrisy, it's interesting how it invariably comes down to "give me money".
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Well he(Gad Saad) is a super-jewish Lebanese national whose family fled to Canada so it's to be expected here. Being from the middle east and constantly talking about middle-eastern politics, he's arguably outranking Seth Rogan in the Chosen Hierarchy.
 
Didn't Seth Rogen's wife say some cucking type shit to Cernovich? The fat Jew has more important shit to worry about than people trying to tell jokes.
 
Haramburger said:
Well he(Gad Saad) is a super-jewish Lebanese national whose family fled to Canada so it's to be expected here. Being from the middle east and constantly talking about middle-eastern politics, he's arguably outranking Seth Rogan in the Chosen Hierarchy.
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Gad Saad certainly outranks Seth Rogan when it comes to comedy. He's not even a comedian!
 
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