4/14/2013 1:04 PM
I was thinking of this as I was trying to figure out how NOT to be bored this next week.
I mean...as I was planning future fertilizer/cultural events for the golf course.
Comedy is only funny at the expense of others.
In the environment of political correctness we find ourselves living in, we have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. Most of us fit into a group that can be offended by what others say in jest (wow...some of the nicknames we had for each other growing up...we probably would be suspended from school nowadays)
The way I look at it, there are only two groups left that aren't protected: Christians and Rednecks.
And, making fun of Christians isn't that funny. Society seems to understand this so they are deemed the group we can openly hate without consequence.
But, I digress, so...that leaves Rednecks open for comic relief (well, maybe gun owners too. But, based on what I've been hearing in the media lately, most gun owners are Rednecks).
Sorry, again I digress. It used to be that comedians of a protected group could use stereotypes of the group they were associated with for some good material...not any more. Unless you are well established or you have the perfect face for comedy, this doesn't work too well. I heard a young black comic and a younger woman trying to play this angle (using stereotypes of being a black man and a woman) and they were booed. OUCH!
So the way I see it, all comedic material will soon be completely at the expense of our Redneck friends or...we must take a stand, as a society, and ban all forms of comedy.
Thoughts?