He explained that he hadn’t meant to spank the king at all - he’d thought he was spanking his wife. He ordered Triboulet killed unless he could think of an apology worse than the cheek-clapping that got him in hot water, and Triboulet obliged. Apparently, spanking was one thing the king couldn’t take in good fun. That being slapping King Francis I on the ass. Triboulet was a famous French jester, jesters being, as equally obnoxiously up-their-own-ass comedians love to tell you, the only ones who could “speak truth to power.” Triboulet’s most famous joke wasn’t spoken, but was more, well, let’s call it physical comedy. Speaking of comedians who ran afoul of those in power, let’s take a look way further back in the history books. Not being invited to things, whether they’re parties or movie roles, because everyone finds you deeply unpleasant isn’t some new political development, it’s just natural social consequences. Everyone who complains about it has also convinced themselves that jokes about how women should stay in the kitchen are somehow now transgressive despite being cribbed from joke books that would be old enough to receive social security.
Of course, in reality, it’s usually just the widespread disinterest that grows in anyone wanting to hear from somebody repeating opinions from the turn of the millennium. It’s single-handedly filled Fox News’ airtime for the last couple of years, and is painted as an assault on free speech by people who claim you “can’t say anything anymore” where “anything” is almost always the n-word. It’s the latest over-discussed and under-defined bugaboo of the drunkest guy at a party. Look, I’m probably like you: Reading the phrase “cancel culture” causes a white-hot, shooting pain in my brain that can’t be healthy.
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