The book The Edge of the World is Flat is the most hilarious modern satire I have read in awhile. It's about a world in which a non profit has achieved it's mission and is going to be disbanded, but is instead taken over by a billionaire who wants to convince everyone the world is flat. How the non profit convinces everyone is interesting, and the more I learn, a little but true to life. I didn't know what particular idea they were making fun of at first as there are so many, but it all fits together.
But also, as this column points out--comedy has gone from the left. This book shows satire on the right (or at least the gay author/heretic who believes people are born who they are). We all have long, eloquent, morally correct explanations for why we are politically homeless--but as a good heuristic I have to agree with Sasha, I'll go with the comedy. Any group that has lost the ability to laugh is seriously mental.
Ahhh... The 70's and the 80's and even 90's when comedy was funny. Bad News Bears, Blazing Saddles, SNL, etc... Richard Pryor. Rodney. Carson. As young kids we grasped the wry adult humor and sensed when things became tenuous. We learned. Kinison, classic. Eddie Murphy Raw. Eddie Murphy anything back then; Beverly Hills Cop. Onto Tim Allen, Seinfeld, Friends... and then Sex in the City ruined everything :-D.
Watch Gutfeld and the Five as they have been numero uno for a year now; even Mike Lindell just proved what a political stooge Kimmel is these days. To Bill Burr I go for some funnies these days and/or most conservative podcasters. Or, Rashida Tlaib in her ode to marriage-fraud Omar today in congress; Now THAT was funny.
Agreed that Omar is the only one of ‘The Squad’ to speak out on her own. Not that she does it often, but every now and then, she surprises me. AOC is the biggest fraud to me. She is 100% backing the regime, while playing the It Girl on social media.
Both AOC and Omar love to go on about white people, white men and white supremacy. Yet both are married (Omar) or engaged (AOC) to the whitest men you can find. Blond, strawberry blond, blue-eyed Anglo men. Those white men are okay to demonize all day long, but they sure are good to marry!
Watching AOC preach on the House Floor made me think of how it’s Church for these people. They could have easily been shouting Amen and Hallelujah! It’s a joke, a clown show and shouldn’t be taken seriously by any rational person.
Thanks for addressing this, and doing so very well.
The weaponization of victimhood is to blame, I think. Everywhere you turn today, there's a Victim, who has his offense meter cranked up to eleven, and normal people have allowed themselves to be badgered into apologizing for enjoying nothing more than normal humor, which by its nature targets pretty much every group and every human characteristic. The ultimate purpose of humor, after all, is to make us laugh at ourselves and our foibles, as a way of acknowledging them and accepting them.
The solution? We should resolutely take back normal humor, and when self-proclaimed Victims start screaming, we should make humor of that screaming. Harsh? Maybe, but the screamers need to grow up, and being mocked is a kind of boot camp for growing a pair.
Re Ilhan Omar: like you, I don't often agree with her, but her grilling of the evil Elliott Abrams in 2019 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uC1_HXPLo ) was very satisfying to see, and took more guts than other members of the House could muster. She has earned a sliver of respect from me, which is more than I can say for pretty much everyone else in the House.
Great essay! Thank-you for creatively blending comedy, film, art, politics and humanity in to an uplifting message for those willing to listen, learn and laugh.
I'd be curious if people think the media are the junior partners in their relationship with the Democrats, or vice versa. Or is it unknowable due to being too much crossover and they're basically one in the same.
Mel Brooks would of never made it today's world sour and dour people looking for any excuse to get offended. Its comedy not political drama. If you take comedy serious reevaluate your life choices. Also, if you base your show on being a political bias person you limited your audience in half make jokes on both sides all the time, they are easy targets.
Sasha, why do you use Tik Tok? That is extremely stupid and careless. It makes you a dumb sensor like a Accurite weather sensor. Just a mere data point of data collection for the Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks.
You lost all credibility with me in this matter.
Go ahead, make your cat videos that are not funny. Post them on Tikki Tok. Zeig Heil. Show me zee papers….. where are the hebs, hiding in your home now? Corrie Ten Boom needs to know. So does Detrich Bonhoeffer.
Oh please, PLEASE do not worry about offending your readers, if I am at all typical.
Being offended is a choice – if someone chooses to be offended, that's their business, not yours.
Please continue to be courageous in your writing. I think most of us can handle it.
The book The Edge of the World is Flat is the most hilarious modern satire I have read in awhile. It's about a world in which a non profit has achieved it's mission and is going to be disbanded, but is instead taken over by a billionaire who wants to convince everyone the world is flat. How the non profit convinces everyone is interesting, and the more I learn, a little but true to life. I didn't know what particular idea they were making fun of at first as there are so many, but it all fits together.
But also, as this column points out--comedy has gone from the left. This book shows satire on the right (or at least the gay author/heretic who believes people are born who they are). We all have long, eloquent, morally correct explanations for why we are politically homeless--but as a good heuristic I have to agree with Sasha, I'll go with the comedy. Any group that has lost the ability to laugh is seriously mental.
Ahhh... The 70's and the 80's and even 90's when comedy was funny. Bad News Bears, Blazing Saddles, SNL, etc... Richard Pryor. Rodney. Carson. As young kids we grasped the wry adult humor and sensed when things became tenuous. We learned. Kinison, classic. Eddie Murphy Raw. Eddie Murphy anything back then; Beverly Hills Cop. Onto Tim Allen, Seinfeld, Friends... and then Sex in the City ruined everything :-D.
Watch Gutfeld and the Five as they have been numero uno for a year now; even Mike Lindell just proved what a political stooge Kimmel is these days. To Bill Burr I go for some funnies these days and/or most conservative podcasters. Or, Rashida Tlaib in her ode to marriage-fraud Omar today in congress; Now THAT was funny.
Agreed that Omar is the only one of ‘The Squad’ to speak out on her own. Not that she does it often, but every now and then, she surprises me. AOC is the biggest fraud to me. She is 100% backing the regime, while playing the It Girl on social media.
Both AOC and Omar love to go on about white people, white men and white supremacy. Yet both are married (Omar) or engaged (AOC) to the whitest men you can find. Blond, strawberry blond, blue-eyed Anglo men. Those white men are okay to demonize all day long, but they sure are good to marry!
Watching AOC preach on the House Floor made me think of how it’s Church for these people. They could have easily been shouting Amen and Hallelujah! It’s a joke, a clown show and shouldn’t be taken seriously by any rational person.
Comedy blockers:
Taking yourself too seriously, no sense of proportion, catastrophism, and moral binary when viewing humanity.
Sasha
You rock!
Thanks for bringing our comedy back
Usually the videos auto play while listening but not this time
Then again, there's this:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-impersonator-cackles-newfound-fame-havent-run-out-content-yet
Thanks for addressing this, and doing so very well.
The weaponization of victimhood is to blame, I think. Everywhere you turn today, there's a Victim, who has his offense meter cranked up to eleven, and normal people have allowed themselves to be badgered into apologizing for enjoying nothing more than normal humor, which by its nature targets pretty much every group and every human characteristic. The ultimate purpose of humor, after all, is to make us laugh at ourselves and our foibles, as a way of acknowledging them and accepting them.
The solution? We should resolutely take back normal humor, and when self-proclaimed Victims start screaming, we should make humor of that screaming. Harsh? Maybe, but the screamers need to grow up, and being mocked is a kind of boot camp for growing a pair.
Re Ilhan Omar: like you, I don't often agree with her, but her grilling of the evil Elliott Abrams in 2019 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uC1_HXPLo ) was very satisfying to see, and took more guts than other members of the House could muster. She has earned a sliver of respect from me, which is more than I can say for pretty much everyone else in the House.
Great essay! Thank-you for creatively blending comedy, film, art, politics and humanity in to an uplifting message for those willing to listen, learn and laugh.
This drop was just great, Sasha. Thanks for all you are and all you do
I'd be curious if people think the media are the junior partners in their relationship with the Democrats, or vice versa. Or is it unknowable due to being too much crossover and they're basically one in the same.
...and yet another anomaly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VaXlMvAvk
Mel Brooks would of never made it today's world sour and dour people looking for any excuse to get offended. Its comedy not political drama. If you take comedy serious reevaluate your life choices. Also, if you base your show on being a political bias person you limited your audience in half make jokes on both sides all the time, they are easy targets.
Why are old Boomer men so angry?
We just want our records back. IYKYK.
The best.
Sasha, why do you use Tik Tok? That is extremely stupid and careless. It makes you a dumb sensor like a Accurite weather sensor. Just a mere data point of data collection for the Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks.
You lost all credibility with me in this matter.
Go ahead, make your cat videos that are not funny. Post them on Tikki Tok. Zeig Heil. Show me zee papers….. where are the hebs, hiding in your home now? Corrie Ten Boom needs to know. So does Detrich Bonhoeffer.
This is not a game. This is real life. Wake up.