I can only watch a handful of South Park in a given year, not because I dislike it but because the core of its comedy is the shock value and I've found watching too much ot the shock wears off. Do more regular watchers agree with the claim in this article that South Park is more subversive than Stewart/Colbert? To me, South Park doesn't buck authority as much as it challenges social taboos.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The famously contrarian, pop culture-hating (unless it's hardocre punk) > lefty zine gets postal on Comedy Central's 11 p.m. lineup: "Our lazy > embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic > standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and > snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our > golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate > plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive > angst and rage.": > > http://thebaffler.com/past/the_jokes_on_you > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
