My wife ripped this off and handed it to me. “You’ll appreciate it,” she said. I think she meant I might learn something from it.
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My wife ripped this off and handed it to me. “You’ll appreciate it,” she said. I think she meant I might learn something from it.
Marc Di Martino 
Wrong. The best humor questions the accepted wisdom and makes people think about the status quo. Naturally authority figures, like the father in the cartoon want to make humor safe and inoffensive. This is not what humor is good for. That is the bullshit trivial humor of the pop culture, a mere distraction from the issues.
As a big fan of Lenny Bruce, I agree with you, Darwin! But I accept that humor also has many uses for many situations. Being lighthearted is not necessarily being superficial.
No question. Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Mark Twain, all the edgy guys are my favorites, but I’m also a fan of whimsy, of You Are Old Father William and the Goon Show and Monty Python and more recent stuff like “Big Bang Theory”. But the cartoon is about repression, about making humour safe. Oh, and it is funny, by the way. I just wanted to say that it is funny because it’s true to life. The authority figures do want to control and direct humour. They do want to chide us for being relevent.
Agreed. Just look what they did to Lenny Bruce and Jesus.
I think Lenny did it to himself. But if JC came back, I’m pretty sure he’d to standup.