The Head-Turning Thing Steve Harvey Just Said About His Comedy Career

Steve Harvey thinks that people are easily offended these days. During the Television Critics Association press tour, he admitted that while he's interested in doing a comedy special just like his peers, he refuses to do so as "cancel culture" may damage his career.

"The only way I can do one more special is if it's at the end of my television career because it will end my television career," the host said, per Variety. "We're in the cancel culture now. No stand-up that is sponsor-driven can say anything he wants to."

He also said that too much political correctness is ruining the industry he once thrived in. "If I had tried to continue as a stand-up, there's no way I could maintain it. Political correctness has killed comedy. Every joke you tell now, it hurts somebody's feelings."

This isn't the first time that Harvey has spoken against cancel culture. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, he said that cancel culture has made it harder to succeed in comedy. "That's the one hesitancy I have with going back to stand-up. I'm in a sponsor-driven business, and they keep moving the line of political correctness," he said. "If I tell a joke, Procter & Gamble pulls. Once Procter & Gamble pulls, Mercedes gotta pull. Then Kool-Aid. That's an ugly place to be in."

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