"Some comics can do it magnificently with insights about socks, but the best do it with bracing commentary about the stuff that really matters to us. Sex, race, politics and religion have been the source of some of the best comedy I�ve seen, but the process of figuring out how to talk about difficult issues is going to involve errors that are potentially painful for people in the audience."
Writes the comedian Guy Branum, trying to help Trevor Noah off the hook for all the non-PC stuff in his Twitter archive.
By the way, "insights about socks" is a reference to Jerry Seinfeld. Many, many comedians over the years have observed that socks get lost in the laundry. But this is how you do it "magnificently":
ADDED: By the way, if Trevor Noah can be brushed off and set aright, can we bring back Michael Richards?
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