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Is satire dead? Armando Iannucci and others on why there are so few laughs these days
Is satire dead? Armando Iannucci and others on why there are so few laughs these days
It has become a commonplace to remark on the hyper-sensitivity of the culture; a person saying a vile thing can never be debated, but only no-platformed. A person who once debated another person who went on to say a vile thing thereby shared a platform.
theguardian.com




Hear hear. That was an encouraging read. There will always be a place for the delicate backhander or the irreverent take-down of autocrats and zealots.
Nah. There are plenty of laughs these days. If you can't make jokes without basing them on oppressive and fundamentally insensitive ideas, you're just a bad comedian.