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The Joker and the Woke

Laughing in the face of progressive ideology

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

Shane Gillis is currently one of the most popular and successful stand-up comedians in America, and that fact alone is driving the woke crowd crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as the recent surge in the polls for Donald Trump is making them but crazy enough. To compound their distress, Gillis – or the ‘controversial Gillis’ as the mainstream media invariably refer to him – was invited to host NBC’s Saturday Night Live a few weeks back, the very show that ‘cancelled’ Gillis in 2019 as a response to pressure from America’s Rainbow Guards.

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