Comedy. Strange stuff.
Just read 2 articles.
Guardian New Offenders Article
And it's rebuff from Dave Gorman.
Dave Gorman's Blog
The basic gist is that the Guardian recons that comedy is going too far again. There are no taboos, we can pick on whoever we like, make any point that we like and get away with it without consequences in the name of comedy.
Dave Gorman comes back with a defense of the particular comics that are singled out in the article, declaring that the audience missed the point and the quotes have been taken out of context.
If what Gorman says about these routines is actually true, then maybe there is a defense for these comics, but what does it say that there needs to be a defense?
He does not counter any of the arguments that comedy is green-lighting bigotry, racism, misogyny and all the other things, but that one routine has been taken out of context, and if people were offended, then they missed the point.
Exactly what the Guardian said that the defense would be.
Too dozy to work out where I'm actually going with this, but I just thought it was interesting.
Guardian New Offenders Article
And it's rebuff from Dave Gorman.
Dave Gorman's Blog
The basic gist is that the Guardian recons that comedy is going too far again. There are no taboos, we can pick on whoever we like, make any point that we like and get away with it without consequences in the name of comedy.
Dave Gorman comes back with a defense of the particular comics that are singled out in the article, declaring that the audience missed the point and the quotes have been taken out of context.
If what Gorman says about these routines is actually true, then maybe there is a defense for these comics, but what does it say that there needs to be a defense?
He does not counter any of the arguments that comedy is green-lighting bigotry, racism, misogyny and all the other things, but that one routine has been taken out of context, and if people were offended, then they missed the point.
Exactly what the Guardian said that the defense would be.
Too dozy to work out where I'm actually going with this, but I just thought it was interesting.