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Kiss My A** « Ward Anderson

It's time for club owners to face the facts, if you want to reach out to the "clean" crowd, have a family night or something, but leave your main comedy shows alone. My favorite act of censorship began in a comedy club that began not allowing the comics to drink alcohol on stage because they felt it sent a "negative message" and yet the club had a full bar menu available and a two drink minimum. What kind of negative message are they worried about sending? The guy on stage likes to drink like everyone else in the crowd? Then the club progressed to censoring the language of the comics and topics discussed. The club is now a lame duck. People who go to comedy clubs are not looking for Mickey Mouse cookie cutter comedy. The whole reason they are out at the comedy club is let go of the cookie cutter lifestyle of the day world and laugh their asses off. Now I'm not saying that comics HAVE to be dirty, but it is our job to expose the dark dirty areas of the mundane life. Thanks Ward for telling it like it is.

- Tater

Ward Anderson

I toured 49 weeks on the road last year, traveling to 38 states and 5 Canadian provinces. I can tell you first-hand that the average comedy club audience does not want a watered-down, sanitized, or censored comedy show. In fact, I’ve been amazed at the fact that many crowds have caused me to push my otherwise PG-13 show straight into R-rated territory, made clear by their overzealous reaction to the dirtiest jokes and tepid reaction to the same routines when cleaned-up for certain situations. Hands down, the more “adult” the show, the better the response from the crowd…and that includes when I was simply witness to other comedians performances and not just my own experiences on stage.

Yet I’m amazed to find more and more comedy clubs censoring the comedians who work there. That’s exactly what it is, by the way: censorship. To call it anything else is an insult to both the performer and the audience. It’s a decision made by nothing but a combination of ignorance and arrogance, by the way.

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