Why won’t Andrew Lawrence’s critics just admit that they’re offended?

Pretending that a comedian is not telling jokes is the most infantile form of criticism.

Debates about the so-called ‘red lines’ in comedy are, in one sense, futile. We return to the same discussions endlessly, each one usually sparked by a comedian’s joke that has caused grave offence. But the ‘limits’ of comedy are inherently subjective, which means that the only red lines that can ever be enforced are the ones that comedians draw for the…