Do You Punch Up?

I think it was just that joke from Jimmy Carr felt quite cheap. The reason why I'm here is about the problem of how do you punch up if you're on £4 million a Netflix special and you are asked to play the Prime Minister's Sons Birthday party? They're your friends. There is nowhere to punch up because they are not anymore in the position that really gestures were in, which is you're a bit lowly and marginalized and you're like pointing at all of the ridiculousness. That's really what the stand-up comedian is. And now stand-up comedians are kings and gods. How do they punch up? And therefore they punch in every single direction and they

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