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    Eddie Murphy shows you can evolve, apologise – and still be funny

    A 30-year-old video of George Carlin is proof some standups have long understood the ugliness of attacking underdogs. It’s a lesson many current comics are learning
    by Arwa Mahdawi Oct 01, 2019 1 minute
    The power of an apology ... Eddie Murphy. Photograph: Action Press/REX/Shutterstock

    Comedy is dying and political correctness is killing it. Nobody can joke about anything any more without triggered liberals screaming “racism” and “cancelling” them.

    I’ll stop there because I’m sure you have heard after footage surfaced of him making racist, homophobic and misogynistic gags. Gillis responded to the outrage with a non-apology in which and takes risks.

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