That's Not Funny Today's College Students Can't Seem To Take A Joke

The Atlantic ^ | September 2015 | Caitlan Flanagan

[kosciusko51]

The beginning of the title is the punch line to one of my favorite light bulb jokes:

“How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”

[Sgt_Schultze]

[Last Dakotan]

Zoltan Kaszas ... Chinedu Unaka ... Feraz Ozel

Let me guess - they aren't Norwegian.

[notdownwidems]

That’s a fine-looking lineup Sarge, but don’t forget Rodney Carrington!

[SunkenCiv]

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• Jerry Seinfeld: Politically correct college students 'don't know WTF they're talking about'
• Jerry Seinfeld, the Racist?
• Black Comic Blasts Jerry Seinfeld's Assault on 'PC Nonsense'
• Jerry Seinfeld's Blunt Take on Diversity in Comedy: 'Who Cares?'

[sarasota]

Jerry Seinfeld has spoken about this himself. He never does college gigs because they have no sense of humor. Everything must be politically correct.

[ballearthout]

Yeah, kid, banging your grandma jokes are definitely politically incorrect these days. But give the Media a few more years of brainwashing us, then that will probably become the new “norm,” too, like gay marriage is today.

Just wait it out, kiddo.

[MrB]

“THAT’S NOT FUNNY!”

[dfwgator]

Yeah, kid, banging your grandma jokes are definitely politically incorrect these days.

"It's a family act..."

[struggle]

“How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”

3.

3? Why?

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO QUESTION EVERYTHING I DO!

[Fred Hayek]

Minneapolis. Throw in St Paul as well. The most humorless places I have lived.

[Stand Watch Listen]

[OddLane]

Anyone who gives Garrison Keillor a career should have no input into comedy.

Patrice O' Neal Destroys A Feminist .

[Tax-chick]

Interesting article (and at the bottom, I learned that chewing ice is bad for your teeth, just like my mom always said).

[PoloSec]

College kids have been through there formative years and continue to be indoctrinated into the demented liberal mindset, those who resist are subject to extreme coercion, it is in fact child abuse.

Can’t blame the kids their parents have gotten what they are paying for.

[driftless2]

Fifty years mainstream comedians had to be squeaky clean. No "offensive" material concerning, sex, bathroom habits, other cultures, etc. This attitude extended to all forms of entertainment. For instance, if a tv show or movie showed a married couples bedroom, there had to be two beds.

Then in came the new comics for which no topic was off limits. The comedy subjects became much wider, the language became more uh diverse i.e. dirtier, and comics had free rein to say just about anything.

So it's curious that fifty years later during this "great" age of liberal comics their intended college audiences will not laugh at anything that does fit into the p.c. world created by liberals. Ironic, isn't it?

[driftless2]

"no sense of humor."

This age of p.c correctness on college campi coincides with the rise and dominance of females on campi. Females are now the majority of most of the nations's campi. It's well known that male (often very nasty) humor does not go down well with females.

Add to that the growth of the femi-nazis i.e liberal fascists who proliferate on college campi, and you have the ingredients of the p.c. culture where nothing untoward is permitted.

[packrat35]

Not a chance. Not PC enough

[equaviator]

If I was a comedian I’d develop a routine where I stick it to these institutionalized college students from start to finish. That’ll learn ‘em!