I'm not a big fan of the whole, "you couldn't do that today", but you sure couldn't do that today. I think you weren't supposed to do it then either which made it subversive comedy.
>That's just because the mores of society have changed.
And the huge amounts of research that shined the light on the Catholic church's culture of preying and assaulting children and then covering it up.
It took quite a heroic effort to bring the Catholic church's crimes to light and she was speaking about something the media wasn't comfortable or willing to report on.
I can think of dozens of true statements that if spoken on a show like Saturday Night Live would led to a performer being banned.