Letters to the Editor
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@durian
Us? Are you using the royal we again? Oh, I get it, you're speaking for the community in response to a comment I directed at you. That's a really neat trick. Now that I've dispensed with the quid pro quo sarcasm, let me ask you: do you really think this skit is "destructive?" Destructive?! This is a madcap skit. People are beaten up and run over for little or no reason. Is that joke destructive towards victims of hit-and-run drivers? And does their offense give them moral authority over the entire topic?
I agree that the skit isn't funny, but that's mainly a function of its execution, not its subject matter. To ask what's off-limits in comedy is to not understand the whole damned genre. Comedy explores uncomfortable subjects. That's what makes it, like, funny.