Biting Satire Gets Bitten Back!
Seriously, does noone understand what satire is any more? I can remember in high school having to read a few satirical novels. Of course they were in no way comical, in fact “Brave New World” was as depressing as a wedding on a June afternoon. The fact that these Aussie’s who are a known satirical troupe were compelled to not only apologize for their “in poor taste” piece about terminally ill kids, but also had their show suspended for two weeks is leaving a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
If you were asked to think of something funny about mentally challenged people, suicide, pedophilia, racism, or murder you would probably immediately be sickened at the thought, right? But if I reminded you that you laughed your ass off when in “Something about Mary” Matt Dillon’s character discussed his interaction with mentally challenged adults, would you admit that you laughed? How many of you call yourself or someone else retarded when you screw something up?
And suicide? Can that really be funny? Let’s see, one day while driving in the car with the my kid, he was making me nuts! So I say, you know I can solve all our problems fairly easily here (now mind you this was actually a humorous conversation.) I proceed to tell him if he does not quit driving me crazy it will push me to kill myself, but I am going to take him down with me. I go on to say that I will off myself in such a way as to frame him for my murder. He wondered what method I could possibly use to accomplish this goal. I say, “It’s easy, kid, I will just beat myself to death with a baseball bat!” YOU LAUGHED and you know it!
All those other things, we laugh at on “Family Guy”, “Pulp Fiction” ,who could forget the scene where John Travolta’s character accidentally shoots a guy in the head. You were ashamed you laughed but you still laughed…. The truth is, the world needs to lighten up with this politically correct crap. If you don’t think it is funny then don’t, but I think to cause a stink because YOU didn’t like it is totally retarded.