Fantastic piece. A lack of understanding Moral Philosophy is the biggest cause of hackery in any artistic field. You can't find the moral middle ground on any taboo subject, if you don't know how to analyze it and see it from all sides. And, it should go without saying that you can't see it from all sides if you're…

"As a comic, there’s one question I get all the time: Where have all the male stand-up comics gone?" hahahahaha awesome

What retelling jokes gives the joke teller is certainty about what is funny. Your theories about what is funny are never as good as your knowledge of what has made people laugh.