I hope you’ve all seen/read the Stephen Colbert speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner by now. This response to the response is great because of this bit:
Comedy is by its nature uncivil. Comedy is, in both linguistic structure and overall psychological impact, hostile. Sometimes overtly, often not. But there is no such thing as a joke structured like: “You know what makes me happy? Yeah, that same thing that makes everybody else happy. (sigh)” There is no laugh there.
In unfunny (though possibly hostile) news my new G2H2 column appears to be up.
Advertisement
