Standard Time: Punching sideways: comedy vs. cancel culture

Offensive jokes: we all love them, but nobody seems certain, who gets to tell them. From #politicalcorrectness to #cancelculture staying #woke seems to be the comedian’s new worst nightmare. While humor acts as a response to the crumbling state of the world, how ‘PC’ can someone be when dealing with offensive jokes? Guests Aislin Kane is a California-born, Vienna-based comedian and founder of Gays and They Comedy in Vienna. Jannis Panagiotidis is the scientific director at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the history of migration. Homer Hakim is a Vienna-based Afghani comedian and founder of the Comedy Pub, the only pub fully dedicated to stand-up comedy in Vienna. We met with them at The Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Vienna. You find sources and related reads here eurozine.com/authors/standard-time/ Creative team Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief Merve Akyel, art director Salma Shaka, writer-editor Margarita Lechner, writer-editor Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant Szilvia Pintér, producer Zsófia Gabriella Papp, executive producer Management Hermann Riessner managing director Judit Csikós project manager Csilla Nagyné Kardos, office administration. OKTO Crew Senad Hergic producer, Leah Hochedlinger, Marlena Stolze and Clemens Schmiedbauer video recording, Richard Brusek sound recording; Postproduction Nóra Ruszkai, lead video editor Réka Kinga Papp, conversation editor Art Victor Maria Lima, animation Cornelia Frischauf, theme music Captions and subtitles Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Yermakova, Farah Ayyash Hosted by the Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Vienna. Disclosure This talk show is a Display Europe production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values. This programme is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Foundation. Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.