Current Happeings in Comedy

A news story I saw at Feministing this morning ties into my earlier post: this is why we still need to talk about the social context of humor.

Three things:

1. What the woman in the audience did was not “heckling” – this is what heckling sounds like. Okay not exactly, but the Muppets are pretty awesome.

2. Trying to shut down discussion of social concerns by dismissing valid criticism as an uptight overreaction is a crap tactic. In fact it’s a craptastic crap tactic. Yuuup.

3. I think that there are ways of making jokes about the awful things that exist in the world, but this definitely wasn’t one of them.