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The Point Issue 14
The Point Issue 14
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The Point Issue 14
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Because otherwise you have cultures that are mired in their own ways of thinking--there's no development, there's no provocation to think differently. You have to provoke. You have to create a bit of uncertainty. Unless you believe that everything's perfect and that people shouldn't question the way things are, or improve. Comedy is a way of opening the mind.
when asked why comedy should cut down conventional values
Or take the late-night shows--they are so conservative in their comedy. It's the worst thing! It does the opposite of what comedy's supposed to do. If comedy is supposed to open people's minds, then you go to Colbert, for instance, and all he does is thirty Trump-is-shit jokes? Everyone knows this! Those jokes do nothing. All they do is reify, and what you have is the ideological. I think people today are looking for their spokesperson. They're looking for their spiritual leader, their political leader. That's not what a comedy show is for. G to your political rally then.