Can you laugh at satire that targets 'our side'?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

[deutsey]

1. If it's funny and (being satire) hits its target accurately

satire: A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Our side doesn't have "human vice or folly"?

[billyskank]

2. If it has a good point, yes

Nobody's perfect.

[Fenris]

3. If you answer "No" you have a selective sense of humor.

EVERYONE deserves to be made fun of, ESPECIALLY politicians and members of the media.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. There's been a lot of 'selective senses of humour' here lately.

Not just JibJab, but The Daily Show also.

[Fenris]

11. Indeed.

The infamous "FUCK JON STEWERT" thread yesterday was vomit-inducing. And the amazing thing was that he really said nothing offensive to Dems.

[thebigidea]

17. well, humor is pretty selective anyway.

I love the Daily Show and watch it every day.

Jibjab makes me want to jab scissors into my eyes.

[Fenris]

21. Well, whether or not that's funny is dependent upon

The number of times you've either seen it or been told how LOL funny it is.

[thebigidea]

29. I saw one reference to it here, clicked the link, didn't laugh.

Didn't see it again either.

I don't get the argument that if you don't laugh at that flash, you need to lighten up or have no sense of humor.

Humor is pretty much my life, and this thing just doesn't do it for me.

And its nothing about sensitivity to Kerry-bashing, I don't have a particular fondness for the man and love Stewart's terrible impersonation of him...

Some people like Monty Python, some like the Three Stooges, some like Bob Hope, some like 'em all. Still others, and I'm told there are at least 3 - like Dennis Miller.

[Fenris]

34. It's very pedestrian.

Not terribly funny.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. JibJab was definitely of the 'a plague on both your houses' school

Not particularly funny, but the section with the native guy is very telling. No Republican would write that. The rest was pretty naff.

[redqueen]

14. Oh those aren't real DUers, just freepers tryin to make us look bad

Hi Freepers!

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

4. we better be able to laugh at ourselves

[truthspeaker]

5. yes, but not if it attacks strawman Dem positions

[Donkeyboy75]

6. Doesn't seem this poll is reflecting reality.

[Fenris]

8. The reality is different than some would like you to believe.

[Donkeyboy75]

9. I'm getting a "Matrix" vibe here.

Morpheus?

[Fenris]

13. Take the blue pill.

[redqueen]

15. No! Red!

Take the red!

[Fenris]

22. She's a liar! Take the blue!

[Donkeyboy75]

26. It's a crapshoot, anyway. I'm colorblind.

I'll take the left purple instead of the right purple.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. Cut the red wire! Alec Baldwin is off fighting Genghis Khan!

[Donkeyboy75]

31. SLB, you are too austere for me to follow sometimes.

I salute you! :toast:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. I'm obsessed with trash. Obsessed!

[Fenris]

32. ROFLMAO! Why do I know that reference?!

Or rather, why was that one of my favorite movies when I was younger?!

Rrrrrreinhard Lllllane.....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

36. It's actually not a bad movie. I rather enjoy it.

But McKellen's acting is dire. Really, really bad. And he's the greatest actor of his generation!

[Fenris]

38. It is quite perplexing.

I mean, I understand phoning in a performance, but faxing one in?

The art direction was quite interesting. The Monolith Hotel was cool to look at. Like some kind of art deco monstrosity.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

39. The wrapping is exquisite. The present however.....

[Fenris]

40. Mmmmm. Pigflesh.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Weren't they a Ministry side-project?

[Fenris]

42. I think so.

:)

[redqueen]

28. Away with you, evil promoter of the Matrix!

Fight the Matrix! Take the Red pill!

[supernova]

10. I can

I'm the first to say when I've been had. But I'd wager there are quite few people here who can't recognize when the joke is on them and take themselves way too seriously.

[redqueen]

12. I know there's a bunch of ppl here who hate sitcoms

so I'm prepared for the flames, but this just reminds me so much of the Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Ray and Debra do a skit about Ray's parents, and everyone laughs and laughs... then Ray's parents do a skit about Ray and Debra, and suddenly their sense of humor goes flying out the window. At least that's how I think it went... anyway ...

[wicket]

16. If it's funny and not recycling right-wing lies, then yes

[Feanorcurufinwe]

18. Other: Yes - when it is funny

if the basis of the joke is a falsehood, let's say, that Democrats want to 'take your guns away' or some other dishonest RW meme, then I am unlikely to find it funny.

[genius]

19. If it's funny and accurate. Lies aren't funny and don't fit definition

[On the Road]

20. "I've Got News for You, Mr. Clinton..."

"Your pickle has already stepped into history."

"Janet Reno dances for no man."

and so on. Sure, I can laugh at things like that.

[redqueen]

24. What *was* that pickle thing about?

Did he ever explain that?

Is he smoking pot again?

[On the Road]

37. No Idea

I thought maybe it was some kind of old Arkansas expression.

[denverbill]

23. Honestly, I used to be able to, but it's pretty rare now.

I used to think Limbaugh was funny at times, but what he has done with his 'humor' is split the country in two and turn liberals into something virtually akin to terrorists. That ain't funny.

[deutsey]

30. Limbaugh serves the powerful and the wealthy

I'm not saying that there aren't plenty of foibles worthy of satire among "the people", but satire often works best when it targets the pomposities of the wealthy and the powerful.

Ultimately, though, satire targets any "colossal humbug," as Twain put it. He said "only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Everyone is a viable target of satire, in my opinion, when they are full of themselves or bullshit or both.

[bhunt70]

33. if you can't laugh at yourself... <n/t>

[HippieCowgirl]

43. I voted "other"

Because my answer is "Yes, if it's funny." I don't find mean spirited "jokes" told at the expense of any one person or group to be funny at all. Really good satire should be funny. I think the latest bit of internet satire (JibJab's My Land) is howlingly funny because it sends up EVERYONE.

[AngryLizard]

44. "Breck Girl"

I think that nickname for Edwards is hysterical! He may have style, but no one can say he doesn't have substance, either. Oh, and I've joked about Kerry/Edwards PDAs as well. Some of their stuff is so BS, you can't help but laugh at it.