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Morrissey (John Shearer/WireImage/Getty Images)

Morrissey was always a jerk

Andi Zeisler
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action, speaks during a meeting on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Olivier Touron/Getty Images)

Efforts to avenge Kirk fall apart

Russell Payne
A group of protestors who gather weekly, demonstrate outside News Corporation headquarters, the parent company of Fox News, in midtown Manhattan on March 18, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Fox News "expert" defends Hitler

Russell Payne
Roseanne Barr, host of FOX Nation’s "Cancel This!," Visits FOX News Channel’s "Gutfeld!" on February 14, 2023 in New York City. (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Barr, McCain celebrate Kimmel ouster

Alex Galbraith
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Russell Brand leaves the Troubabour Wembley Park theatre in north-west London after performing a comedy set, Saturday September 16, 2023. He faces claims about his sexual behaviour at the height of his fame. (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Russell Brand's Christian "redemption"

Amanda Marcotte
Ron DeSantis | Harvard Campus (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Let's get real about censorship

Amanda Marcotte
Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval (Wilson Webb/Netflix)

Ellen DeGeneres special falls flat

Gabriella Ferrigine
Actor/comdedian Louis C.K. attends the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Why what Louis C.K. did still matters

Melanie McFarland
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Nick Cannon in "Counsel Culture" (Prime Video)

Nick Cannon's dubious "Counsel Culture"

Melanie McFarland
Jerry Seinfeld attends the 2024 Met Gala celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/GC Images)

Seinfeld: I miss "dominant masculinity"

Griffin Eckstein
Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart in "Hacks" (Max)

Hacks asks why "sorry" is rare in comedy

Melanie McFarland
The Daily Show with John Stewart (Comedy Central)

Stewart: MAGA wages real cancel culture

Gabriella Ferrigine
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Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Maher (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cancel culture has been good to comics

Melanie McFarland
Bill Maher attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/VF24/WireImage for Vanity Fair)

Bill Burr rips Maher's Gaza "solution"

Gabriella Ferrigine
Host Shane Gillis during the Monologue on the Saturday, February 24, 2024 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

Once fired Shane Gillis' journey to SNL

Nardos Haile
Howard Stern (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Howard Stern embraces being called woke

Nardos Haile
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Jennifer Aniston attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix's "Murder Mystery 2" at Regency Village Theatre on March 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Jen Aniston is wrong on cancel culture

Nardos Haile
Author Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, Committed: A Love Story speaks on stage during the Opening Night of Texas Conference for Women 2019 at Austin Convention Center on October 23, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Texas Conference for Women 2019)

Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately

Laura Guidry
Tom Papa (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tom Papa wants you to give dad nothing

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rudy Giuliani appears in support of his son, New York Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Andrew Giuliani, at an election night watch party in Manhattan on June 28, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Giuliani is the face of MAGA "freedom"

Amanda Marcotte
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John Mulaney: Baby J (Netflix)

John Mulaney's cancellation comedy

Jacques Berlinerblau
David Cross (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Where David Cross draws the comedy line

Dean Obeidallah
Roseanne Barr participates in "Is America a Forgiving Nation?," a Yom Kippur eve talk on forgiveness hosted by the World Values Network and the Jewish Journal at Saban Theatre on September 17, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Rachel Luna/Getty Images)

Barr calls cancel culture "fascist"

Kelly McClure
Thumb down or dislike button on keyboard (Getty Images/fongfong2)

Opt out of the "woke wars" in 2023

Amanda Marcotte
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