Tub Loads of Money

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The video is a series of shots of loads of money marching around with scantily dressed women, driving fancy cars and sneering at the rest of the world. It has three point three million views on you twoinitot there is no oped, no letter to the editor, no impassioned essay that gets three point threemillion views on you tu. That's the power of satire. It can go places that serious discourse cannotwaan los bi ma gos asa. If you ask harry enfield about loads of money's legacy, about what he thinks he accomplished by speaking trut so boldly to power, you know what he says? He says it made no difference.

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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