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JustAnotherGen

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3. South Park and Chappelle do it better

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 06:09 AM

Jan 2015

Dave Chappelle doing a skit on different groups in America and what kind of music makes them get their dance on is funny. Or as Clayton Bixby. Or the Do You Know Black People game show.

South Park has spent 17/18 years laying waste to everything in their path. Xenu, Tom Cruise, making fun of themselves with two black characters . . . They've even had an forest animal based satanic nativity. The devil, Jesus, God, gamers (that online gaming thing is getting to be like a religion), animal rights activists, wal mart, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Spielberg, etc etc.

I've never "got" The Family Guy - I just don't get the humor. I've watched it a few times but by and large the jokes are cheap - they don't have the nuance and depth and don't make me laugh at myself.

Maybe that's it? I can relate to token in South Park? I can laugh at the black cop in the Chappelle dancing/music skit because like him - I can't help rocking out to a Poison song because I grew up in the burbs?

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Humor doesn't have to be satirical. It could, you know, just be crude for the sake of being crude. [View all] Drunken Irishman Jan 2015 OP

Satire is a very rare breed of humor and most humor is TreasonousBastard Jan 2015 #1

I don't like that "humor" as it's called. It's awful. Cha Jan 2015 #2

South Park and Chappelle do it better JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #3

That Chappelle skit on race and music deutsey Jan 2015 #10

I have Every Rose Has It's Thorn JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #11

So do I deutsey Jan 2015 #12

Awesome! JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #14

Chahlieee Murphaay! deutsey Jan 2015 #21

all publications could use good taste get the red out Jan 2015 #4

And satire doesn't have to be funny hack89 Jan 2015 #5

Western satire is the only kind of satire acceptable in the world and all the world must accept the Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #6

Satire does not need to be funny to be satire. Scuba Jan 2015 #7

These cartoons depicted serve no other purpose than hate and they were religious themes, not political. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #8

"religion is not topical" Scuba Jan 2015 #13

Then those disagreeable people would be in error about the definition. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #15

I think that definition fits religion very well. Scuba Jan 2015 #16

Then "topical" has a brand new definition...we should add "religion is always topical"? Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #17

I think religion is always topical, because it's applied constantly to political and social issues. Scuba Jan 2015 #18

Have a pleasant day. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #19

I'm having a very pleasant day, thank you. Same to you. Scuba Jan 2015 #20

Religion is ALWAYS topical. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #22

When you are a major political or religious figure that influences billions of people, too bad. stevenleser Jan 2015 #23

That's a Western world construct that we insist on imposing on the rest of the world. randome Jan 2015 #9