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Satire In Happier Times

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In our day and age, the concept of comedy and particularly, the perception of satirical comedy has been changed. There are many controversies about whether a subject is appropriate to make fun of or not. Conan O'Brien says: " The Jews are funny, black people are funny -if you are making huge blanket statements, you'd say those are groups that historically have been thought of as very funny. Well, you're looking at three groups with huge amounts of fuel like repression and cultural insecurity and all that" (Paul Provenza, May 6, 2010 Conan O'Brien: In Happier Times) What I think is that the point which makes this issue worthy to discuss is that satire which is the oldest form of social study plays a role as an initiative to inform people and make them think in depth about various kinds of issues. Therefore, the quality of satirical comedy which is mostly derived from political satire has a significant importance. Especially, in current conditions, almost every shows and publications are trying to be the bad boys by using the power of satire that is able to draw people's attention in a …show more content…

Also it is worth bearing in mind that media's power of controlling the society cannot be underestimated, if I were to draw an analogy between media and the society, I would call it sheep and shepherd relationship. With the aforementioned reasons it becomes impossible to take media's satirical activities which satire is conflicting itself seriously . Unless media is controlled and regulated by an objective force, we can't be sure that if the satirist is a part of a puppet show like a smear campaign or really points to something matters. And unfortunately, when this reliability isn't provided, there will always be people who fall victims to this system. Truly, it is understandable that why some people associate satire with a loaded gun that needs to be

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