DO YOU HAVE TO LET IT LINGER? "Smartypants magazine editor to CNN: If Comedy Central can do it, why can't we? That was a good part of New Yorker editor David Remnick's argument to Wolf Blitzer about the controversy the current issue of the magazine has whipped up by portraying Barack Obama and his wife as a couple of gun-slinging, bin Laden-loving terrorists on its cover. Remnick likened what the magazine has done to what 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' do every weeknight on television. He said the point of the cover was to satirize the many right-wing rumors and innuendoes that have spread virally about the Democratic candidate."
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That is what annoys me about satire. This fine line about satires were they are neither funny nor punny. They are just mean and fuel whatever they try to shed light on.
I hate it when people try to trivialize prejudices. Especially if it is so obvious that it will be taken out of context.
And I love satire! The good one!
I'm confused.
64. New Yorker:Colbert Report as -
a)MadTV:SNL
b)Margarine:Butter
c)Wyler's:Kool-Aid
d)All of the above
New Yorker:Colbert Report as
Thelma and Louise:Bonnie and Clyde
/idk
For more:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/k.....r_cartoon/
Here is the thing: if a joke bombs on the Colbert Report, he can look charmingly into the camera, and do some cute gesture to the audience. He can try and recover, and he usually does.
Jokes bomb on Mad TV, SLN, and other shows. If there is a bit on one of these shows, I can either stick it out, knowing that it won't last for long, and hope that maybe the next bit will regain my attention. Or I can channel surf. This is what I usually do.
I have caught a few interesting shows half way through on other channels as a result of bad bits.
Magazines don't have this luxury. If the cover doesn't grab my attention, I won't buy.
It's really very much like relationships.
Husbands: you gotta love them even when their bit bombs. You sometimes just have to look the other way.
Singles scene: If the cover doesn't grab your attention, you'll just move on to the next magazine.
I am sorry New Yorker, but I'll probably check this one out in a couple of months, at my dentist's office. I have a routine appointment in September.
OK you can write the SATs this year, your stuff works better. :)