Rowan Atkinson shared his cancel culture take again – 16 favourite responses

In a few days, Netflix viewers will be able to enjoy the comedy stylings of Rowan Atkinson in a 10-part series detailing the slapstick repercussions of a man’s battle with a bee in the mansion he’s house-sitting.

Ahead of Friday’s release, Atkinson has been doing the inevitable entertainment pages interviews, and also inevitably, he discussed cancel culture.

“It does seem to me that the job of comedy is to offend, or have the potential to offend, and it cannot be drained of that potential.

Every joke has a victim. That’s the definition of a joke.

The comedian and actor, who famously said Boris Johnson shouldn’t apologise for saying burqa wearers looked like bank robbers and letterboxes because it was funny – had plenty of support, along the lines of these comments.

Others thought he might have missed a point or two.

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