Monique, and no, I am not CONFORMING by putting that stupid mark into her stupid name.
Monique, and no, I am not CONFORMING by putting that stupid mark into her stupid name.
Comedy is critique, it's slaying sacred cows to make hamburger.
But what happens when your people have climbed allllll the way up? What happens when you're the center of the center column..?
The tone of the comedy changes. And indeed some will allege there's NO SUCH THING as comedy anymore. And we do hear that opinion, even from the greats, now.
And THEN what do you do?
Well, you begin SHUTTING OTHERS DOWN, that's what you do.
When the plucky, insurgent upstarts rise to the very top it stops being funny and then they start being enforcers, they set about destroying the conditions that permitted them the mobility to rise in the first place.
The heroic pigs are inside the farmhouse, they're setting at a set table, walking upright and using the china.