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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Cartoon ComedyCowards?
We're waiting for an explanation...
COMEDY CENTRAL. There's a another South Park controversy underway. Read about it here and here. Check here to see if they've come clean yet about what's going on in the network boardroom.
There's one perspective we have to mention. Think of all those "irreverent" Comedy Central shows -- the foul-mouthed, anti-establishment comedians, the endless reruns of T&A-drenched teen sex movies, the smugly satirical political send-ups that always seem to feel brave for slinging feces (cleverly packaged perhaps, but always feces under the wrapping) at the President and his allies -- and ask yourself how hard and edgy and fearless it is to mock only those things which are traditional, grown-up, or somehow inconvenient (say, duty and honor) to a selfish, half-educated adolescent. Not very.
Comedy Central isn't edgy, fearless, or even witty. It's crass and exploitative, and it's no surprise that its management lacks even a nihilist's sense of principle. The so-called comedy network is nothing BUT crap, and we mean that in the most literal, South- Park connotation of the word.
We're waiting for an explanation...
COMEDY CENTRAL. There's a another South Park controversy underway. Read about it here and here. Check here to see if they've come clean yet about what's going on in the network boardroom.
There's one perspective we have to mention. Think of all those "irreverent" Comedy Central shows -- the foul-mouthed, anti-establishment comedians, the endless reruns of T&A-drenched teen sex movies, the smugly satirical political send-ups that always seem to feel brave for slinging feces (cleverly packaged perhaps, but always feces under the wrapping) at the President and his allies -- and ask yourself how hard and edgy and fearless it is to mock only those things which are traditional, grown-up, or somehow inconvenient (say, duty and honor) to a selfish, half-educated adolescent. Not very.
Comedy Central isn't edgy, fearless, or even witty. It's crass and exploitative, and it's no surprise that its management lacks even a nihilist's sense of principle. The so-called comedy network is nothing BUT crap, and we mean that in the most literal, South- Park connotation of the word.
