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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

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The Limits of Sat-Out

Sitting-out is an episode of the thick of it. It's a question that's often been raised by cultural critics about the whole concept of satire, or if you can really make a sort of politically radical point ever using satire. So arguably the limitations in some way of something like the thick ofIt is that although it was really good at poking fun of the venality and self-important to this professional political class, on the other hand, it was always doing so from a perspective that sort of implied that this wasn't structural to their position. The term satire is first used to refer to the writings of the Roman writer, Juvenal, who is basically criticizing what he sees as

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