from Long island to Brooklyn and Manhattan New York has been an integral part of the Comedy scene- and a gateway into a comic career. Unfortunately there is a disproportionately larger number of virtue-signaling and/or overly sensitive students that flood the hallways of Academia.
-Partly due to media-manufactured tension and standards, specifically with the leftist Hollywood elite. Simultaneously the halls of academia have been- largely due to the bias of professors and bureaucratic system itself, which benefits from the hysteria economically as well as regarding then furthering of the accreditation and legitimacy of particular disciplines such as gender studies.
The current state of the typical liberal arts college is radically skewed to the extent that the lightest of jokes set off alarms. Even if the joke had nothing to do with any one of the various buzz words- simply hearing a term, (not a slur or insult) in a comedy bit is like sensitive weapon- hair trigger...
