The article aims to contribute to the understanding about the ways in which the place and role of the freedom of expression category are represented in discourses produced by Brazilian comedians in relation to struggles for capital and forms of distinction in the field of humor. In this process, the intention is to investigate how elements related to production of hegemony processes in the humoristic field, with an emphasis on the mobilization of freedom of expression to energize diffuse imaginaries, are connected to the internalized rules of their social actors and their strategies of distinction. To achieve this, we choose as case study the intense media repercussion of the episode in which São Paulo Court of Justice determined, on May 16, 2023, the removal of the video Perturbador, published in 2022 on comedian Léo Lins' YouTube channel. As our corpus, we examined statements from comedians in Brazilian podcast episodes. The research revealed that the marking of positions in defense of freedom of expression plays a central role in how comedians represent the humoristic field in their speech. Furthermore, there seems to be a legitimized habitus among Brazilian comedians whose statements are linked to what we refer to a hegemonic discursive articulation in the comedy field, corresponding to the attempt to establish a final, supposedly true, and undeniable, meaning of what it means to do comedy