You have a minority of activists with incredible power in society who are treating their own extremist views and presenting them as though we've reac… - Andrew Doyle (comedian)

When the fashionable beliefs of our time are imposed onto historical works of art, they are invariably denuded of much of their profundity.

I don't think that you can be an artist if you are simply trying to gauge what the acceptable point of view is. Or, indeed, if you are using your art as a conduit to express whatever the vogueish ideology of the time happens to be. And that is what has happened. If you go to any theatrical production in the [United Kingdom] now, nine times out of ten it will be a sermon disguised as a piece of entertainment.

What the activists did to comedy insofar is they were expecting audiences to sit there, hear the joke, assess whether it was morally pure, and then laugh to endorse the point being made. And that's not how laughter works.