I'm certain Orville had the perfect freedom to do that, Doc.
Still I must add I have frequently, personally observed that people can and often do express and deal with acute existential pain through the outlet of "cathartic" humor. [cf. Aristotle's Poetics.]
But in the end, in the great scale of things, in what way and to what degree does Orville's puny effort actually count in terms of realizing the human project, in justice and freedom?
In other words, why do we have to listen to this guy, why take his message to heart?
Somehow I think human beings by and large can do better than that. By the grace of God.