Comment on Im curious what they will come up with
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
What’s the point of satire if it can’t keep up with how bizarre reality has become?
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
That was a thing during the first Trump administration. Comedians were complaining because anything Trump did would immediately be pale in comparison to what he did next. Just one really stupid thing after another.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
For my next act - nuclear holocaust!!
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Satire right now is funny when it’s normal.
LOOK, A DAY WITH NO NEWS, HOW FUNNY
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I recognize that that type of comment is supposed to be a joke (and I’ll react accordingly, because I’m not a buzzkill), but it absolutely isn’t actually funny (ha-ha) for me.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Oh definitely. But it’s hard to be funny at all right now. Because “ice murders entire retirement home” is too believable in the same way that “rental cars full of ice agents visit retirement home and does good deeds all day and nothing terrible happens” isn’t.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
This is why the creators of Veep ended their show.m when Trump got elected.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
They need an episode with a disclaimer the whole time that this actually happened. It wouldn’t be a fun episode though.
Actionschnils@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Like their Episode about Scientology?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Yea, but that still was a funny episode as their beliefs were played as a joke. There’s not anything funny about sex trafficking and ritual killing.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I remembered now, but the simpsons had a really creepy island themed episode over 25 years ago, and i feel it belongs to this conversation now unilad.com/…/the-simpsons-creeps-island-epstein-m…