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This article is an excellent read and nails the problem with today's comedians.
Wheres their nerve? Todays comics mock poop, not the powerful.
Where?s their nerve? Today?s comics mock poop, not the powerful | New York Post
Wheres their nerve? Todays comics mock poop, not the powerful.
Ramis death is a reminder that comedy has gotten too fat and happy, too rich and insulated, too therapeutic and self-adoring, too willing to mistake the meaninglessly crude for the spectacularly subversive.
Even comics who present themselves as the loyal opposition to the political leadership, like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, expend most of their efforts simply repackaging Democratic Party talking points as jokes. The 70s hang-em-all anarchist spirit lives on only in the margins, in a few brave outposts like South Park.
Where?s their nerve? Today?s comics mock poop, not the powerful | New York Post