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But it's still interesting that in this era Colbert can still get away with it. 2014 isn't actually peak woke, you might say.

Progressives still do this now with SNL just telling nakedly racist jokes. They just need the barest fig leaf of an excuse and they'll roar with laughter at a white man saying the meanest, most racist shit.

This is called, I am told, "media literacy".

It's called having your cake and eating it too. It's tough for progressive comedy to emerge from the end of wokeness and actually allow raunchy humor.

In the context, it is quite funny without betraying the premise of wokeness, as the jokes are explicitly writen by the black comedian to make the white comedian uncomfortable and viceversa (and they don't see the jokes until they see them on the cue cards?) which is a funny premise in itself.

a white man saying the meanest, most racist shit.

This is too obtuse of a characterization, like saying that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a show for Audiences to laugh at racist people who wear blackface.

I haven't watched SNL for years but I remember Archie Bunker. Norman Lear was pretty progressive in his day.

If you are in the mood: Google "snl joke swap" some time and watch some funny really edgy race humor. Or "mid day news". Their crassest race humor is their most popular bits.

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