Reginald D Hunter, Omid Djali, Simon Brodkin, and other top comedians spoke from Edinburgh Fringe about how they're coping with cancel culture
"All we have to do as comedians in our 50s is just make little adjustments. Things that we think are tremendously funny, we run it by our kids and the kids say 'I know why your generation think that's funny, but we don't!' So I'm very lucky to have three kids, and that's why I think it's kind of helped me adapt.
"Sometimes people have very different ideas of what the butt of the joke should and shouldn't be, but I think comedians have always, always had to do that.
"I think when there's an intention of hate behind it, which there are with some people, that hate is an energy and that can ripple out, and I think it can have real world knock-on effects and an uptake in violence and hatred and intolerance towards marginalised people in communities."
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