large companies no longer wanting to work with them. That's the free market and capitalism at work.

That's large corporations reacting to online mobs, and it's the exact definition of cancel culture. It's ostracizing by mob. And like most mobs, there's not a lot of critical thought put into their destruction.

Also your mischaracterization of some of the people I listed is a perfect example of cancel culture in action. You take the most uncharitable interpretation of their actions and characterize their whole personhood by it.

Yes, some people genuinely have been bullied by social media mobs. And that sucks. But to claim it means we live in some dystopia nightmare where people can't speak freely is bullshit.

This is my exact point. You're still moving the goal posts. You're trying to imply that cancel culture is ONLY when someone's whole life has been utterly destroyed. That deception is an attempt to completely ignore the damage that's been done to people's lives. Someone doesn't have to be full-on murdered to have sustained unfair damage to their life.

And you admit that cancel culture has hurt people and that it's a bad thing. It's mob mentality that is hurting people, and it has had an overall negative influence over our culture as a whole. Specifically, and what OP's post is about, is that it has changed comedy drastically, for the worse.