Wednesday Toon Roundup 4- The rest

[rustbeltvoice]

7. yes

"unfunny because they either are mean to the powerless, are deliberately misleading, or racist/sexist"

Yes, i have noticed this also: "deliberately misleading" is false and meant to be; "mean to the powerless", years ago, i read a book by a Jesuit, and he made a distinction about "satanic humour". One example would be, laughing at a man slipping and falling on a banana peel. This may be humourous (to some), but it is cruel, and does not tell us anything. Further, i think he was also trying to explain why clowns scare some people.

I think it is a safe assumption, that we may agree that, Mark Twain was a world class humourist. Twain (Samuel Clemens) was a serious writer, writing humoursly at times. He wrote about the human condition. I remember from study, Twain was very popular for Russian reading public; and the Russians had many world class writers.

The sort of humour of Twain, Trudeau, Letterman, and several others just does not seem possible from certain political quarters. Fascists are not funny, ridiculous quite often, funny -- no.