Seth Rogen says he doesn't understand comedians who complain about cancel culture: 'If you've made a joke that's aged terribly, accept it'

• Seth Rogen said he doesn't understand why some comedians complain about cancel culture.
• He said if a joke has aged poorly, comedians should just "accept it."
• And if they disagree, they should state that.

Seth Rogen made a brief intervention into the so-called culture wars Tuesday during an interview on "Good Morning Britain," where he said he doesn't understand why some comedians complain about cancel culture when they face criticism for past jokes.

Rogen appeared on the British breakfast show to promote his debut collection of essays, "Yearbook," when the host Susanna Reid asked him what he thought about controversial jokes from his past films.

"There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that's the nature of comedy," Rogen said. "I think conceptually those movies are sound, and I think there's a reason they've lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last."

He added: "To me when I see comedians complaining about this kind of thing, I don't understand what they're complaining about. If you've made a joke that's aged terribly, accept it. And if you don't think it's aged terribly, then say that."

Rogen continued that receiving criticism is "one of the things that goes along with being an artist, and if you don't like that, then don't be a comedian anymore."

"To me, it's not worth complaining about to the degree I see other comedians complaining about," he added.

Later during the interview, Reid asked Rogen whether he would ever need to go back and scrub his Twitter account of past offensive jokes, to which he responded: "I was never a comedian that made jokes that were truly designed to target groups that were subjugated in some way."

"Have we done that without realizing it? Definitely. And those things are in our movies and they're out there, and they're things that I am more than happy to say that they have not aged well," he added.

"But in my Twitter, I've never made a joke that's outwardly horrific in some way, and if you have, I would question why you did that. Saying terrible things is bad, so if you've said something terrible, then it's something you should confront in some way, shape, or form. I don't think that's cancel culture. That's you saying something terrible if that's what you've done."

Rogen's debut, "Yearbook," is a collection of essays about his life and experiences navigating Hollywood as a young actor-comedian.

Earlier this month, Insider's entertainment correspondent Jason Guerrasio listed some of the biggest reveals from the book, which included an incident from the 2011 Grammys in which Rogen failed to meet Beyoncé.

In the book, Rogen wrote that he "marched up" to Beyoncé just before he was scheduled to introduce a performance and attempted to introduce himself when a giant arm "like a baseball bat" hit him across the chest.

"I stumbled back and spilled my screwdriver all over myself," he wrote. "I was soaked. Her security had (wisely?) batted me away before I could get close. And at that exact moment, a PA came up to me and said, 'Alright, Seth, they're ready for you!'"