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Leonard Pitts Jr. asks where Bill Maher got the idea he could use the n-word at all.

The politically correct aren't killing comedy, they're improving it. We're entering an era where societal shifts in what we consider funny and who gets to be funny are making more space for all sorts of new voices. These are comics that are tackling the taboo — making provocative observations on race, sex, death, money, politics. But they're doing it from the perspective of those who typically were the punch lines, not the comedians telling the jokes.