For old times sake:
5 May 2023
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That is excellent comedy writing. It steams into a topic you should never make jokes about, and then makes jokes about something that isn't the topic at all. Instinctively there's the "oh shit where is he going to go with this" feeling, but he never actually says anything offensive at all.
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I mean, I imagine quite a lot of people would find it horribly offensive. Offensiveness is in the eye of the beholder and all that. Funny, though.
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Of course, but he's not actually making a joke about missing children, he's making a joke about language and maybe the media a bit as well. But he's wrapped it around a topic that many would consider to be taboo for comedy, and that's what makes it actually funny.
Look, I think I'm a pretty woke guy who's very happy to take offence on other people's behalf when I think comics are being exploitative and punching down (yes Chappelle, you again). But I don't feel like that's the case here.
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Yep, and it's funny because it's (at least a bit) true.
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I just had a good chortle at “Cronut McGee”.
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Yeah, seconded or thirded or whatever. Beautifully done. Funny because it’s dancing around the edge of something risky, funny because it’s a bit true on the surface level, and funny and smart because it is very true on the deeper level.
Also, the sort of thing where the point is proven by all the people who get angry cos they missed it.
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"There's no I in Yeovl."
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Who was that random Yovile fan who was here for a bit? Was it Chris? With a fondness of badges?
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I think he spelled it Chrs.
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Very good.
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Yes. Commemorative badges and amateur photography of insects and stuff if memory serves.
Unless I've made that up.
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Wasn't he a bit high maintenance?
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Always thought that was another EBP character.
