Losing those jobs certainly wasn’t what Steve wanted.

However, he’s forged such a successful career over the years that those losses didn’t affect him too badly. In fact, it freed him up to explore some other avenues and continue branching out his comedy. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can expect to see the host doing standup comedy anytime soon.

He's reluctant to do standup comedy because of cancel culture
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Steve admitted to reporters in early 2022 that he’d have to be at the end of his television career before that happened. It’s not because he doesn’t enjoy it, but rather he feels his set would be torn apart by cancel culture. Steve acknowledged that his comedy is so divisive that he’d struggle to land much TV work if he returned to standup.