Taki Taki

The death of humour

How funny used to be: the Marx Brothers pictured in about 1933. [General Photographic Agency/Getty Images] 
issue 22 October 2022

New York

Rodney Dangerfield was the American Benny Hill: lewd, funny and not exactly politically correct where the weaker sex was concerned. In America today there is no room for Rodney’s or Benny’s shenanigans, and leering at women is now commensurate with having one’s rocket polished in broad daylight, perhaps even more so. I find it amazing to be daily bombarded by the shameless gimmickry, stupidity and smuttiness of television but deprived of talented comedians who tend to get on the wrong side of hatchet-faced feminists. The saccharine cesspool of late-night talk shows, the utter banality of actors and actresses talking about their latest films – this is what our modern culture has become.

Never mind. I don’t watch these horrors so why am I complaining? I suppose it’s because of my Christian concern for my fellow men and women, whose brains are ripped, trashed, blasted and destroyed by the minute.

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