'Two and a Half Men' actor calls his show 'filth'

[Tansy_Gold]

47. Apparently WAY WAY WAY over. . . .

The post to which I was replying had a misspelling. Instead of the correct word "juvenile," someone had written "juvenal."

Juvenal, whose full Latin name was Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet of the early christian era (by date, if not politics or religion) who wrote his Satires critical of the culture he lived in. There being no printing presses -- much less photocopiers, scanners, or Kindle Direct Publishing in those days -- much of his work was preserved in hand-written form by christian monks and scribes.


The irony, therefore, is that almost 2000 years after Juvenal's time, TV comedies (which I haven't watched for decades) are their own form of satire, or at least commentary on the contemporary culture. That one of the stars of such a program is turning christian in protest is just, well, further irony.