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The Unexpected Rise of Clean Comedy

The Unexpected Rise of Clean Comedy

Tuesday, June 10, 2025
If you’d told someone in the mid-2000s that the future of stand-up comedy would be squeaky clean, they’d have laughed in your face. Probably with a punchline about Dane Cook’s latest bit.  Back then, comedy clubs were temples of the edgy, the explicit and the “did he really just say that?” The louder, the raunchier,…