Kirk
2008-10-22 04:26:42
Comedy needs to be rooted in the truth, even conservative comedy. It gives it the strength to develop and resonate. Liberal TV humor tends to fall flat hard when it starts on a lie as a premise. All Republicans are racist, all whites are oppressors, southerners are stupid, ect ect, whenever you see liberal comedy start on that premise, when the skit is done, your like , what was funny about that? Simon was correct when he said ya the guy is a pig but a smart weasel manbearpig. Portraying him as a crafty mustache twisting 1950′s black and white scfi fi villian would have been more accurate.
I think the lesson learned is “you can’t fool an honest man”. If you start based in truth it carries innate protections.
