It’s the start of Banned Books week, which means we begin to pontificate over works that have been challenged, mostly wondering why someone would want to ban The Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We figured a look at satire is a good entry way into the realm of the forbidden. Before we fall too far down that rabbit hole, we pause to thank some friends of the show.
The Art of Satire (14:33)
Satire isn’t easy. Too offensive and the satirist comes off as simply ill-hearted. Not offensive enough, however, the aspirating rhetorician will appear to be but a decoy (or in John Stewart's words: a hack). A good satire, a satire that sticks and makes people remember the punishment has to have just the right amount of wit, humour and pointedness. In this episode we discuss the art of satire from books, to plays, to visual arts and music. We try to understand what the idea of satire is and how it is best practiced. We wonder how satire differs from parody, irony, lampoons and farces. We end with a discussion of the cult-classic television cartoon South Park, exploring how satire is deployed in the series while debating it’s ironic value and wondering if it’s really all that funny (1:15:05). It’s an episode packed with attempts at humor, irony, exaggeration, and lots of ridicule. Not for the faint of heart.
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Concluding thought:
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
-Jonathan Swift
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