It paints a comforting picture for those who shake as they type the word “snowflake” at anyone who lives life in deeper context than “what’s going on in my world today...” However- the fact shows like South Park, Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Archer, and many more are current and popular- some of the top 10 comedy specials on Netflix are “offensive humor” by people like Dave Chapelle. Offensive humor is still well received and popular- but people are demanding it be more intelligent than bigoted one liners or openly mocking those seen as “others.”
In fact- one of the HUGEST and most accepted forms of offensive humor is when it isn’t the joke that is the punchline but the person telling it. When we aren’t laughing because this character made some homophobic remark- we are laughing because they are a baboon who would say or think such a thing in 2019. People still laugh at Micheal Scott because HE wasn’t funny, his CHARACTER was funny. A man with almost no self awareness and even less awareness of that which wasn’t him. A man who’s bored of the world could have come from a comic strip from a bygone age and just lacks the simple intelligence to actually relate to other people- but his redeeming trait being that he would often at least try in his own way when it came to it. The offensive humor isn’t the joke with Micheal Scott. He is the joke. Satire- the day is coming where we can see bigotry as buffoonery- to be laughed at and pitied- not taken to heart and aspired to.
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