After I read the Secretary of Homeland Security, I had what you might call a disgusting laughter Kristi Noem response The latest portrayal of her South Park episode. “It’s so much trouble to tease women about how women look,” she said without realizing the irony in those words.
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Does she notice that she is sitting next to the Secretary of Defense? Pete HegsesI think women should Not in combat The military position? Or speakers of the DHS funding family that considers freedom for women to leave their marriage and leave their motherhood Contributes to mass shooting?
And her hypocrisy of talking about “looks” is especially true of her ice agent. Target Black and Brown People. That’s the reason South Park Her performance was a spot. It wasn’t lazy. In fact, it was meticulously made and there was all the absurdity that elicited all the hypocrisy of the Trump administration.
and South Park Kristi Noem is one of the reasons why the show is an inherent danger with a new barometer of the current political climate, which is cruel, inhumane and unusual. Trump administration.
Please don’t get me wrong. The late-night monologue still has its place. In fact, with his most important surrender to Trump, Stephen Colbert gave him a huge boost. He is Configuring Evaluation Records I’ll be ahead of his exit in May next year. Colbert is evidence that CBS was wrong to say that the late-night franchise stopped working, meaning it’s not beneficial. It was Barony!
But here is the reality. That means that late-night format hasn’t changed much since Johnny Carson took the helm. Tonight’s show October 1962. There will be an introduction, a band, an opening monologue, guest interviews and musical performances. Almost in that order, and almost forever.
The jokes in the opening monologue usually center on celebrity gossip, social trends, and news content, especially crazy things. It normalizes them simply by giving them a familiar place in monologues, by the structure that makes Trump and his minions the same rhythm as other public figures when mentioned.
It is expected that the president will have fun. Carson, Letterman and Leno all did it and the audience was waiting for it. It is a heritage of form. The president has always been easy feed.
last month, When it came to Jay Reno, I laughed. I chased the current late-night host to spend most of my time targeting Trump. He mistakenly said they alienated “half of their audience.” John Oliver said he wasHard Pass” About that advice.
Reno sounds like a relic, stays in touch, and is unaware of the current climate. Jay, please Jay, chasing Trump is something that the majority of people tuned late at night want to hear. Reno’s perception is tasteful and reflects an era in which the nation shared a common cultural feed. But it doesn’t exist anymore.
In an age where we curate our own news bubbles, “relevant to anyone” is fantasy. Not all of us are watching the same show anymore. Reno was in 11 years and in 2014 it was a completely different world. As a side note, I have never seen Reno, Letterman for many reasons, but mostly because Letterman was very interesting and adapted to the times.
Yes, Colbert has become more intense than anyone else after Trump, and Trump continues to threaten him, as well as warning the two Jimmy Awards It will be cancelled next.
If Kimmel and Fallon start to see their ratings dissipate, they may almost exclusively follow Colbert’s homing lead, as it’s working now. However, even if that’s the case, there are limits to what you can say in the middle of the night without breaking your own pattern.
Saturday Night Live There’s no difference. Since 1975, SNL He is a cultural arbitrator for presidential parody. Chevrolet Chase has transformed Gerald Ford’s occasional awkwardness into a national running joke. I remember seeing Chase take all these platforms, but something was missing. Chase didn’t look or hear like Ford, so it didn’t seem incredible, at least at my younger age.
That’s why he overturned the real thing when Dana Kerrvey captured George HW Bush’s looks, speech and mannerism. Like Phil Hartman, he looked like an ignorant Ronald Reagan. It was all believed.
Hartman really came to himself with his Bill Clinton impersonation and made him violently generous. Joe Biden of Carvey was similarly distracted, distracted and caricatured.
And today, James Austin Johnson plays Trump with such accuracy. Interesting, it’s sharp, but still the same structure SNL I’ve been using it for nearly 50 years. Structure is important because structure limits risk and normalizes people who are parodied.
We knew Chase, Carvey and Hartman were comedians and we laughed with them. They were “normal” people and played “normal” presidents in a “normal” political environment.
Please enter it now South Park.
South Park, This was the 27th year, and I left the political conversation mostly years ago, but suddenly came back at midnight and its fierceness SNL Cannot match. The show is totally unrealistic, insanely confused, as a cartoon depicting people as other people. It reflects an unrealistic and absurd president and his equally vibrant administration.
In the first two episodes of this season, South Park I went for the jugular vein. It is extremely disrespectful, horribly grotesque and, by extension, obscene. It’s not just laughing at the cards, it’s smoking him like a dead fish. South Park They used the worst fears of the Trump administration towards them.
And the show separates his entire ecosystem: Magazine, Christian extremists, J.D. Vance, Christie Norm, Ice, and the creepy Charlie Kirk obsession with college students. And the show just started
This is not a gentlely presented, keen political commentary. This is a satire of a burnt earth that reflects Trump’s charred earth on our democracy.
In just two weeks, Baby Oil Satan’s Anal (Winks at Sean Combs), eagerly portrayed by an explorer massaging a Jeffrey Epstein-like figure, Christinoem’s Botox melts, his face falls, slips everywhere, then he’s back to his head by a team of stylists.
It really fell into Noem. She was shooting the puppy (she shot herself), and her ice agent was raiding heaven to deport the brown angels. “If it’s brown, it goes down,” cried the manga-like Noem. It was dead on. Unfortunately, it’s phirological and literal.
Her overtly palpable, unthinkable cruelty and awful stupidity are all exposed. The show not only pushes the envelope, but breaks it, burns it, and burns it, and the ashes are overnight, and overnight in Mar Lago, where Trump (Ricardo Montalban’s Roarque) and JD Vance (Herb Villechies tattoo) in white suits are FedEx de line! de plane! I’m waiting for ”
And this is the real difference. Late night and SNL By folding Trump and his allies into the familiar comedic tradition, South Park Dehumanize them. It portrays Trump and his likeness as bare monsters and imitating villains, not as human flaws. Because they are not human.
There is no need to vehemently follow policy or politics to get jokes, and no context is required. Images are immediately recognisable, crude and unforgettable.
Gnomes kill dogs. Trump is connected to Satan, and ice arrests arrest innocent people. It was repeated, thrust into the house and burned into your memory by the time the show was over. It is a political message disguised as a perceived comedy, and is much more effective than most democratic story points.
Maga’s faithful It’s known To see South Parkand some of them, faced with these images many times, may be seen as fatally flawed by their heroes. It is a psychological amputation that late-night comedy is not possible.
When next month SNL Back and a cold open might give some laughs. However, compared with South Park A brutal two-week electric shock, it can feel tamed and even disinfect. Wow, I didn’t think I would say that SNL.
Here are lessons for politics as well as comedy. If Democrats want to drill holes in Trump’s armor, maybe they need less monologues and more mayhem, and definitely more comedy. Because right now, America’s most effective political agent is not a senator, governor or former president.
He may be a foul mouthed child from Colorado named Eric Cartman.
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