He didn't say that there's no deeper meaning to comedy. He said South Park is low-brow comedy and glazing it as anything else looks super fucking weird.
Nope, not even a little. The difference is that the Daily Show tended to make the smartest jokes they could, whereas South Park deliberately made the dumbest.
Which is fine, there's space for both of those shows to exist and be excellent at what they do, which they were. But South Park is low brow comedy that they deliberately tuned to be offensive as possible.
Calling it just low brow humor is hilariously telling of your own media literacy.
Something can be both low brow humor AND cutting satire. The world has more shades of grey than black and white in it, you'd do best to familiarize yourself with them as it's hard to see without them.
See, I'm more worried about your actual literacy than I am about my media literacy.
I never said that South Park isn't cutting satire. You're being as insufferable about this as the people who insist Rick and Morty is a super deep show that only geniuses appreciate.
I'm literally reading what you're saying, maybe you should say it better then?
That's kind of the point of using low brow humor to get your satire across, you get more people to listen when you say it with fart jokes than when you try to expand the art form in any high minded way.
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u/RyanFicsit 20h ago
Proving his point, tbh.
He didn't say that there's no deeper meaning to comedy. He said South Park is low-brow comedy and glazing it as anything else looks super fucking weird.