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Why local comedians are being asked to avoid politics, at the same time national comedians are embracing it

Polarization and exhaustion have some in the comedy world struggling to find any humor in politics.

The first time Janae Burris was asked by a comedy club to leave politics out of her set, she was angry. 

“I was like, ‘how dare you?’ A Black woman is running for office and I can’t talk about it?” Burris, who is Black, recalled recently.