No, it wasn’t.
As I said, it was part of the mores of the culture, so it was not shock. It was simply low humor. There are “fart jokes” in the Canterbury Tales. Howard Stern talks about farting. No big deal. But when Howard Stern encourages a couple to have intercourse in the entryway to St. Paul’s cathedral, that is a type of “shock” that we do not find in ancient literature.
Setting up a fake website. Claiming t be from a phony company. Asking an earnest preacher to help someone who is in trouble...all to ridicule that preacher, is not a part of our mores. Well, it is to leftists.
But to conservatives, we need to condemn it for being the anti-Christian, leftist attack that it is.
you’re redefining shock comedy. Shock comedy is NOT something from outside our mores, shock comedy is something from outside our normal interactions. It’s not necessarily something we don’t do, it’s something we don’t do IN PUBLIC. That’s where the nervous laughter of shock comedy comes from. The fart jokes in Canterbury Tales were shock humor, not because people didn’t fart, but because people didn’t acknowledge it happening.