"Comedians" who make their social identity their personality

I feel the same way. This self-identity humor was sort of new and maybe cutting-edge in the early to mid 2010s. But by the late 2010s, it got old real quick.

The self-identity humor feels like the safe way out now. It seems unoriginal and cliched at this point.

My reaction to this kind of humor back in 2011 would’ve been to laugh. Now my reaction would be to roll my eyes and sigh.

I feel like comedians who use this tactic are playing the victim card and want the audience to feel sorry for them. The self-identity humor by now has become “Why does everything bad have to happen to me?” A lot of times they seem angry or bitter. I’m referring to the late night show, “A Little Late with Lily Singh,” which lasted from late 2019-early 2021. Like you said, that kind of humor is annoying today. 

I didn’t notice the self-identity humor that much in the 2000s. I’m sure it was around, but not as prevalent as the late 2010s to present. Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock are great comedians imo. I don’t believe they were whiny. I think they were actually funny. 

I 100% agree with your second paragraph. I thought I was the only person on this board who shared those same sentiments as you. As far as I know, bisexuality can’t define a person’s personality. I dislike how bisexuality, sexual orientation, transgender topics are shoved down children’s throats. Children should be taught to be understanding and accepting of everyone regardless of differences, but they’re too young to decide if they should be a boy or a girl and what their sexual orientation is. I’m talking about preschool through elementary school aged children, 3 to 10 years old.

I hate how certain businesses let a person use the restroom and fitting room of the gender that they feel like at that moment, so if a man felt like a woman, then they are allowed to use the women’s restroom instead of men’s. That’s the excuse some or most men use to sexually assault women and do terrible things. How stupid and oblivious can these companies be. They’re going to put other customer’s safety in harm. 

For a spouse to turn around and say to their partner who they’ve been married to for a while that they’re bisexual is terrible. I hope we don’t need to defend that. Of course not all people of LGBTQ+ are like that. I’m also not keen on defending all forms of bisexual and advocating for many gender pronouns. 

Yeah, pretty much agree with your points. I would think the social identity trend is likely to change this decade or it could move to different subjects within that topic we still don't know about. It could also reach point where it becomes a bit too cliche, it already is moving in that direction, also because there's been a lot more acceptance of those groups compared to 10 or 15 years ago, even if it isn't perfect. 

I wonder what stand up comedy trends will be in 5 years from now. There's always a chance it could stay the same or go in radically different directions. I think every decade has it's own stand up/comedy/humor trends, there's quite a difference from stuff like eddie murphy's 80 stuff, russell peters 2000's material and some of newer stand up from the last 5 years or so. There is some stuff you never really want to come back (the bigoted parts from earlier decades) outside of that I think social trends and subjects and humor tend to change with the times.

Yeah. She was kinda the opposite when she was first starting out. She got annoying in recent years and her jokes haven’t been as funny as well.