I suppose that every standup comic that has ever poked fun at George Bush or Elizabeth Taylor or any other celebrity is therefore guilty of bad manners. Satire then is very bad manners. Doonesbury is extremely bad manners.
Well, I suppose you could consider it that, but I prefer to look upon it this way: for every person who has publicly lampooned a public figure in the press, on tv, in political cartoons, in comedy clubs -- there is a fan writing an RPS story and posting it on a comparatively remote internet site, one that no one really has interest in except the fans. It's hardly as public as David Letterman raking his victim du jour over the coals of his Top Ten list. Under your definition, comedy, political cartoons, parody, satire and the rest must be truly vile indeed.
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Date: 2005-03-18 01:52 am (UTC)Well, I suppose you could consider it that, but I prefer to look upon it this way: for every person who has publicly lampooned a public figure in the press, on tv, in political cartoons, in comedy clubs -- there is a fan writing an RPS story and posting it on a comparatively remote internet site, one that no one really has interest in except the fans. It's hardly as public as David Letterman raking his victim du jour over the coals of his Top Ten list. Under your definition, comedy, political cartoons, parody, satire and the rest must be truly vile indeed.