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Will American styles of humor begin to appreciate more the sense of the ABSURD?
Slap-stick has had its heyday with the Three Stooges, vaudeville is passé, word-play is always present but intellectually challenging, sit-coms are great plays on reality, self-denigration is the proto-typical Midwestern style humor (think: Garrison Keillor), put-downs like sexist, racist and ethnic jokes have their ups and downs and reflect a play on values while reinforcing them, violent humor I don't want to get into...but, "What about absurdity?" We see some in the news, but it's still a curiosity, odd, politically (yawn) incorrect...
Are the current political and social conditions ripe and ready for an American "grand rise" in the humor of absurdity, irrationality, and the mildly perverse? Considering the predicted duration of the recession/depression and the absolute stupidity of the late administration, we'll have to have something to laugh at!! Whatcha' think?
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