COMING SOON TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS NEAR YOU: North Korea bans sarcasm because Kim Jong-un fears people only agree with him ‘ironically.’
What a juchebag. Still though, I’m having a tough time squaring this story out of the Hermit Kingdom with this recent headline: North Korea airs Saturday Night Live-style sketch show mocking Barack Obama… and the jokes are as awful as you think they are.
Top comedy scientists ponder: can you have comedy without irony?