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I think you're meeting him well more than half way in your interpretation. He didn't condemn making racist jokes, he just acknowledged that people don't like them anymore. That's just not "he thought about it and came around".
"You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I make the gate to get down the hill."
He's explicitly looking at this as a necessity of his profession, not a change of heart.
OK, but you're holding his answer to a standard he never claimed.
I mean, he once said that left wing scrutiny had killed comedy. He now says that was wrong and while the goalposts have moved it's part of the job to meet them there and it's not that big of a deal anyway.
So he has changed his mind on the thing he's talking about. Which, sure, I can agree is not the thing you're talking about. But he's still walking back his old statement that he says was wrong, that is pretty straightforward.
It's one thing to argue that he still doesn't fully agree with your perspective on the issue, which is entirely possible because... well, he doesn't know who you are or what your perspective is (and presumably doesn't care). It's another to deny that he has changed his mind on the issue he actually talked about when he's telling you plainly that he has changed his mind and he's giving you a new, completely different position he now holds.