I’m a trans girl and I was ready for some awkwardness from my friends if a cringy trans joke came up. Once he mentioned his closer got someone mad at him, I was bracing for pain.

I was super delighted to find it was a trans bit, but that it was actually a good trans bit that wasn’t just, ‘haha trans woman ugly’.

His cancel culture take was refreshing. I’m getting so tired of the ‘wah wah, we can’t joke about anything anymore’ song and dance.

I feel like Anthony wanted to break down the idea that people are too woke to handle jokes about touchy topics. I think he showed that actually, you absolutely can joke about anything and it can be funny— as long as the joke is something more than, ‘I don’t like these people and let’s point an laugh at them’.

It didn’t feel like punching down, but more like when a good friend gives you shit and you know it’s from an equal place of respect. It actually made me feel drawn into the show, and I bet most of the trans peeps in the crowd felt the same.

Anyway, I wanted to hear how anyone else who attended felt about the trans stuff and the cancel culture stuff!