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Pirogeth
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So how do you feel satire works? How harshly do you treat people? What people would you target? Do you think it is an acceptable form of comedy? To give you a good example here is this video which I'm sure you guys might enjoy.
To answer my own questions I feel satire really only works if you express the opinon of the common pedestrian (the real one not the street people on the news). Then exaggerate certain proportions and finally wrap it up with a clever metaphor. Ta-da Satire. Along with such a thing you are criticizing a lot of people and you have to treat a certain group or groups with a level of disrespect and respect at the same time. Makes it a really blurry edge between flat out insult and insults that the rest of the population can get behind on.
Of course I think satire is an acceptable form of comedy, after all if you plan on being the target of such nonsense you must be fully dedicated to doing something ridiculous in the first place.
So what do you think? (both satire in general and the video)
To answer my own questions I feel satire really only works if you express the opinon of the common pedestrian (the real one not the street people on the news). Then exaggerate certain proportions and finally wrap it up with a clever metaphor. Ta-da Satire. Along with such a thing you are criticizing a lot of people and you have to treat a certain group or groups with a level of disrespect and respect at the same time. Makes it a really blurry edge between flat out insult and insults that the rest of the population can get behind on.
Of course I think satire is an acceptable form of comedy, after all if you plan on being the target of such nonsense you must be fully dedicated to doing something ridiculous in the first place.
So what do you think? (both satire in general and the video)