As Dave Chappelle fights cancel culture, 3 comedians say free speech will prevail over censorship

"Comedians just need to stop buying into all the noise, and they need to just start telling jokes how they want," Tyler Fischer, a New York stand-up comic, told Fox News.

"Too often, too much credit is given to the way people interpret what you're saying or what you're doing as a comedian rather than what your real intentions are," Josh Denny, a Los Angeles comedian, told Fox News. .

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"That basically tells all those transgender people that what they think Dave Chappelle saying about them is true, and that's not the case at all.".

The comedians told Fox News they believed the people aiming to censor comedians represented a small, but over-pronounced portion of America.

"We've just inflamed the very small minority of people who are sensitive and giving them superpowers," Fischer said.

Denny similarly said: "The people that want to censor comedy or cancel comedians who are being edgy, taking risks, pushing the envelope, I think they're a very, very organized, vocal minority of people.

Chrissie Mayr, a New York stand-up comic, told Fox News that censoring comedians is "the most selfish thing you can do.".

"It's like 'Oh, I don't like this comedian … Not only do I not want to see them, but I want to make sure nobody else can see them,'" she said.

Still, Fischer said modern cancel culture said he censored his own comedy for nearly a decade out of fear.

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Chrissie Mayr, a New York comedian, says making fun of everyone is "true equality." (Fox News Digital)

"True equality through comedy is everyone gets made fun of," Mayr told Fox News

"Comedy is like the most inclusive thing," Fischer told Fox News

Denny said: "I will either make fans or not based on the kind of content I do, but I'd rather take the tortoise race to the finish of making the kind of fans I want than just doing what's easy to appease people."