One metric for comedy that makes sense to me is to ask whether it punches ‘up’ or ‘down’, in other words if it makes fun of powerful groups/people or historically marginalized ones. It’s not a perfect metric but in general I find comedy far better if it punches up instead of down.
Post #1453859
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- NeverarGreat
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- If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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- Date created
- 21-Oct-2021, 1:02 PM