07-03-2022, 05:11 AM
The jerks bringing Confederate flags and Trump banners into Congress were low humor. The "stop the steal" was ludicrous. The attempt to introduce states of "alternative electors" was absurd. But put those together and Trump isn't so funny any more. You'd need a Mel Brooks to put such together as low comedy. Brooks was good enough to make Nazis, of all people, the butts of jokes, as in The Producers. So far as I can tell, he is alive and well, but he is 96. Few people do comedy well past age 75, which is about when Mel Brooks effectively retired from what he did so masterfully.
If the Homelander generation is to be anything like the Lost, then one of its cultural strengths will be comedy. I can make the case that the Silent (Brooks is a prime example) made their greatest cultural contribution to America through comedy as other generations could not. The zany comedians that we used to take for granted from the Silent generation are either dead (Andy Griffith, Alan King, Joan Rivers), or aren't doing it anymore. Comedy is a tricky expression. I see Donald Trump as an obvious target for ridicule, much as the Monty Python crew mocked fascists and the Spanish Inquisition.
and Mel Brooks himself:
and the aforesaid Mel Brooks.
There will be plenty of material to spoof. Trump and Putin will be obvious. So will things that many of us used to consider deadly serious, like the Cold War.
If the Homelander generation is to be anything like the Lost, then one of its cultural strengths will be comedy. I can make the case that the Silent (Brooks is a prime example) made their greatest cultural contribution to America through comedy as other generations could not. The zany comedians that we used to take for granted from the Silent generation are either dead (Andy Griffith, Alan King, Joan Rivers), or aren't doing it anymore. Comedy is a tricky expression. I see Donald Trump as an obvious target for ridicule, much as the Monty Python crew mocked fascists and the Spanish Inquisition.
and Mel Brooks himself:
and the aforesaid Mel Brooks.
There will be plenty of material to spoof. Trump and Putin will be obvious. So will things that many of us used to consider deadly serious, like the Cold War.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.