'People choose to take offence' Katherine Ryan weighs in on cancel culture in comedy

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Express.co.uk asked Katherine how she deals with today's cancel culture and if there was anything she regretted.She said: "I don’t set out to purposely offend anyone but I do like to be proactive and I’m sure if someone tries to cancel me for a joke it wouldn’t be one that I told recently because I was a different comedian 10 years ago."Just as I will be a different comedian 10 years from now."So, I just don’t think about it much.

I’ve always approached comedy with the same goals such as to be funny, try to make sure everyone's having a good time and I’m sorry if I don’t."Offence is never taken, it's given."She continued: "So sometimes people choose to take offence because they like to be worked up about something and I think there’s sometimes a willful understanding of a joke that wasn’t intended to hurt anyone."I’ve seen that before, and there’s very little you can do."Katherine was also quizzed on whether she thinks her friend Jimmy Carr deserved the hate he received after his Holocaust joke.The comic replied: "I mean, I can’t comment on any specific situation but I definitely know that comedians tell jokes and have different styles."I think that right now there seems to be a lot of pressure against a certain genre of comedy."So it isn’t about this job or that job because I think, at this point if a few jokes from that special have been in the press, it's like you’re offended by all of it or you’re offended by none of it as far I’m concerned."There was some backlash in response to Jimmy's Netflix show, His Dark Material.On the show, he said: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine."But they never mention the thousands.