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To: allmost

You are wrong.

Comedy, until recently, has been intellectually based. As we are told of Aristotle’s treatise on comedy (we don’t know directly because the text is lost), our heritage is that comedy is a higher art and ranks with tragedy because it looks at the human situation and then presents it in such a way that we all laugh (rather than cry) at our common situation. Comedy was an escape from the drudgery of reality while tragedy wallowed in it.

More recently, due to poor education and dying creativity among those who seek to entertain us, comedy has degraded further and further away from being intellectually based and discussing the more universal issues of the human situation to being about nothing more than the foul and filthy and, as I said, since the 60’s assaulting and insulting our established culture (in order to tear it down so that it could be replaced with a Marxist worldview).

My first post to you was simply a request to cite some examples of what we consider “shock humor” in ancient comedy, since you said shock humor is as old as comedy itself.

I disagreed and you insulted me crassly. So I think at this point we’re pretty much finished with this discussion.


15 posted on 07/24/2009 5:40:21 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (It's soft tyranny, folks. It's smiley-faced fascism.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

You get three dots ...


20 posted on 07/24/2009 5:51:06 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

There’s always been high comedy, but there’s also always been fart jokes. According to the wiki article the first Greek comedy known was bawdy songs during fertility festivals. That’s shock comedy.


47 posted on 07/24/2009 3:27:20 PM PDT by discostu (Jeff's imagination has gone beyond the fringe of audience comprehension)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Comedy, until recently, has been intellectually based. LOL.

I guess physical comedy and slap stick were not around until recently.

61 posted on 07/25/2009 9:21:32 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport and school records.)
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