The Road to Wokeness: Seth Rogen’s Apology Tour

This explains everything: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/seth-rogens-apology-tour/

Yet there’s one very notable exception to the dissident-comedy movement, one leading figure who loudly and repeatedly swears total loyalty to the new regime like a Cambodian peasant in 1975, who bows daily to the framed poster of Pol Pot he lovingly keeps on the wall of his hut. Others may fall under the scythe of the Comedy Khmer Rouge, but Seth Rogen is determined to survive.

“I’m not one of these comedians who’s, like, ‘People are too PC and it’s ruining comedy,’” Rogen offered in an interview with the Sunday Times of London that recalled one of those Cold War thrillers in which the hapless interrogee sweats under a hot lamp in a cement room as he sincerely strives to cleanse his brain of regime-displeasing thought.

In interviews, the Knocked Up star is taking a strategy of engaging in ritual apology and denunciation of his accused associates for as long as it takes to stay alive. Whatever reeducation courses may be deemed necessary to correct his erroneous thinking, he will attend; whatever feats of mental hygiene may be required to wipe the slate clean of his unhealthy comic thoughts will be dutifully performed.

The reason most comics don’t play the woke game is that they understand intuitively that no matter how woke you go, you will be out-woked. Rogen can never whip himself with enough cat-o’-nine-tails, because someone will always point out that the instrument is a product of patriarchal culture on the high seas, where preteen sailors were treated abusively and people might well have made gay jokes. The lesson here is pretty obvious: If you’re a comedian, be funny, and write off the few dozen people on the Internet who keep saying “that’s not funny.” And at all costs, don’t become one of them.