QOTD
One of the things that super bugged me about Heckler was the section which dealt with all the racist shit comics say on stage. Like when Michael Richards freaked and screamed the n-bomb a hundred times (when reacting to a heckler, interestingly) whenever that was. Or the scads of ethnic jokes clipped in the documentary. When those audiences reacted negatively, they weren't heckling for its own sake, because they were "jealous" of Kennedy's "popularity" - it was because he just said some racist ass shit. Maybe it's an aesthetic judgement to find racist ass shit unfunny, and react to said racist ass shit negatively, but I don't actually think so. That's a question of identity and worldview. That's an articulatable position - your comedy is racist, and therefore unfunny - which is a step above "your shit is just unfunny to me because of taste" on the critical hierarchy. Taste can't be argued. Whether your shit is racist or not, and whether that makes it unfunny or not, that can. That's the difference between heckling and the critical process, motherfucker.
--Ceridwen
cups brewed at DW
--Ceridwen
cups brewed at DW