The Best
The best comedy, in my opinion, is that which tells us something about ourselves, has more than a ring of truth to it, or illustrates a common experience. That's why good satire is great and bad satire is still pretty good. A few moments ago I caught part of a Greg Proops act where he did a great job skewering white folk in respect to music and the best bit was as follows:
"You leave white people in isolation for thousands of years and the best music they can come up with is ... Riverdance!! (:::mock dancing:::) I can't move my head and I can't move my hips, but from my ankles down I'm one sexy bag of Gaelic goodies!"
Absolutely brilliant. But then Proops is good at satire because he's rather cynical. That's an example of why morbidly happy people aren't good at satire, because cynicism just isn't their heart.
