Posted on 07/24/2009 4:53:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Shock comedy is as old as comedy.
That he wins peoples trust to get them to play along with his skits and then uses that to ridicule and condemn them (just like the jackass producers did in “Jesus Camp”) is merely typical of how leftists use deceit to further their agenda, and then try to spin that betrayal by calling it satire.
The sooner someone beats the snot out of Cohen, the better. Let's hope its a Jewish lesbian woman who has enough spine and intelligence to see that this sort of slimy exploitation is intended to make one leftist egotist rich and famous at the expense of driving people apart and causing hostility among them.
“Tell you what! We’ll EAT your mum. Then, if you feel guilty about it later, we’ll dig a grave and you can throw up in it!”
from “The UNdertaker Sketch”, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, circa 1970.
Into the dustbin of history, Cohen, you bore us.
In my literary studies I haven't found any “shock humor.”
As extreme as humor gets in any of the classics that come down to us (which is just about all the writings that exist), is bawdiness, as in some of the comedies of Shakespeare. But the difference there is that the bawdiness itself did not shock the crowd because it was not beyond the mores of society the humor was being presented to.
As far as I can tell, “shock humor” is a fairly recent phenomenon and is directly tied to the counter-culture “revolution” of the 1960’s radicals.
You want me refer to objectionable material being used in a comedic situation? No specifics in that bullshit either.
Re post 6. You can’t be that friggin stupid. Comedy is based on tangential ... stuff.
“No specifics in that bullshit either.”
Brilliant.
Thanks for the enlightening exchange.
If there was in fact “shock humor” going back several thousand years (our literary heritage), you’ve provided the perfect example of why there is no record of it.
We’ll let all those that read our brief exchange decide who is being “stupid.”
What mental ‘sea change’ has occurred?
Comedy has always been crude. It inherent.
You are wrong.
Comedy, until recently, has been intellectually based. As we are told of Aristotle’s treatise on comedy (we don’t know directly because the text is lost), our heritage is that comedy is a higher art and ranks with tragedy because it looks at the human situation and then presents it in such a way that we all laugh (rather than cry) at our common situation. Comedy was an escape from the drudgery of reality while tragedy wallowed in it.
More recently, due to poor education and dying creativity among those who seek to entertain us, comedy has degraded further and further away from being intellectually based and discussing the more universal issues of the human situation to being about nothing more than the foul and filthy and, as I said, since the 60’s assaulting and insulting our established culture (in order to tear it down so that it could be replaced with a Marxist worldview).
My first post to you was simply a request to cite some examples of what we consider “shock humor” in ancient comedy, since you said shock humor is as old as comedy itself.
I disagreed and you insulted me crassly. So I think at this point we’re pretty much finished with this discussion.
I saw it as well.
Terrible and should have had a NC-17 rating.
Sasha isn’t worthy to lick the boots of the Monty Python folks.
I disagree. I’m a history buff.
You get three dots ...
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