Sam Tripoli

Since the 80s, we've kind of had protected classes, right?

And this is a big problem I have in comedy right now is that I don't believe in protected classes.

I don't think anyone's above criticism or above comedy.

And there's a lot of people that don't agree with that.

It's changing now, dude.

It's really changing.

Like, the Comedy Store has gone through these kind of phases, and now we're back in the phase where people want the good shit.

You know, the shit's gotten so crazy, they want to hear the crazier shit.

Because there was a while there, especially after COVID, it's not the Comedy Store fault, it was L.A.

L.A.

was, like, in a weird place, right?

And people were afraid of everything.

Cancel culture really scared everybody.

But the point of this is that if you create protected classes that can't get criticized from the outside, they start to just become this chronic crazy version of themselves.

You have to have outside influence.

And since World War II, that's kind of been the Jewish population has been a very protected class because we don't want the Holocaust to happen again.

So everyone's kind of like not allowed to criticize them.

But now after October 7th.

that's kind of changed.

So when you say it's everywhere, what I would tell you is it's not special.