The Satire Paradox
Revisionist History
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The Pleasure That Laughter Can Be Deceptive
Jonathan coe brings up peter cook, the legendary english comedian of the 19 sixties. Cook was the driving force behind beyond the fringe, the british satirical review. He later started a comedy club in soho in london, called the establishment. The parallel he used with the establishment was that he as he was modelling itall on all those wonderful berlin caparis from the 19 twenties. They had done so much to prevent the rise of hitler and the e and the beginnings of nartiism.
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