Laughter Is a Last Resort

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Insanity, the humour of laurel and hardy. Co says that kind of laughing is perfectly appropriate. Some political problems are intractable but we should try to do something about them. Insay: Why doesn't tina fey just come out and admit that satire is completely toothless? The very next day after tina goes on saturday night life as sarah pelen, she appears as lettiman in a new joke. It's like york from york with an entirely different accent. She got that crazy accentits a little bit fargo. Because you have to be able to goof on the female politicians just as much,. otherwise you really are treating them

In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant young comic named Harry Enfield set out to satirize the ideology and politics of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His parodies became famous. He wrote and performed a vicious sendup of the typical Thatcherite nouveau riche buffoon. People loved it. And what happened? Exactly the opposite of what Enfield hoped would happen. In an age dominated by political comedy, “The Satire Paradox” asks whether laughter and social protest are friends or foes.

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