Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
It would be better if they made it funny but isn't the point of any art form to challenge the audience?
Firstly, no. The point of art is not to challenge. Challenge is an optional extra, or one of many things that art can do. Secondly, what I understand to be the mainstream politics of stand-up doesn't remotely challenge most of its audience, which seems to be happy to keep paying people to make the same sneering UKIP and Brexit jokes for years, perhaps because it re-affirms their sense of superiority.