Satire is the comedian’s Fifth Amendment. Using it as an all-purpose excuse, they can get away with a slew of jokes bordering on offensive. But when death wishes come into play or you go about your “comedy” like you mean every word of it, chances are that line will be crossed.
Unless you’re Bill Maher; in that case, the few people who really think you’re worth a damn will pay no mind to the fact that you (in all seriousness and without even cracking a smile) confessed that you’re jonesing to see Glenn Beck 86′ed from life. Because of course, you’re joking anyway. Even though you know you aren’t.
The Onion’s kind of like that in its news. The bastard child of HBO’s gray-haired monkey and the National Enquirer, their articles read as though they were edited by Alan Grayson and co-written by his 20 (less dominant) personalities. MSNBC couldn’t have made news out of worse material, but I’m damn sure they’ve tried – and confused it for real news in the process.
Yeah, I know. Hacks that get their kicks mixing serious commentary in with garbage that a three year old wouldn’t find funny can’t be seriously thought of as trying to offend anyone, right? Well, neither can we, because we’re just satirizing the Onion and it’s all a big joke! Get hip to it, pull the stick out of your ass and get a clue!
As a matter of fact, that’s going to be my new response to any future whining I hear about Ann Coulter.
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