Original sentence: Although his stand-up delivery occasionally contained so-called "four-letter words," such language was never central to Hedberg's jokes, instead being just exclamation/filler phrases during his stage discourse (his jokes rarely suffered when he performed them on television with the curses omitted)
Edited sentence: Although his stand-up delivery occasionally contained so-called "four-letter words," such language was never central to Hedberg's jokes, instead being just exclamation/filler phrases during his stage discourse (his jokes rarely suffered when he performed them on television with the curses omitted - some might argue that they were better for the more universal appeal)