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The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of thepassage.

“It does seem to me that the job of comedy is to offend, or have the potential to offend, and it cannot be drained of that potential,”Rowan Atkinson said of cancel culture. “Every joke has a victim. That’s the definition of a joke. Someone or something or an ideais made to look ridiculous.” The Netflix star continued, “I think you’ve got to be very, very careful about saying what you’re allowedto make jokes about. You’ve always got to kick up? Really?” He added, “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfiedpeople in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should beallowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”

All jokes target someone and one should be able to joke about anyone in the society, which is inconsistent withcancel culture.
Every joke needs a victim and one needs to include people from lower down the society and not just the upper class.
Victims of jokes must not only be politicians and royalty, but also arrogant people from lower classes should bementioned by comedians.
Cancel culture does not understand the role and duty of comedians, which is to deride and mock everyone.

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