Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“anthropologist Victor Turner’s point about satire more generally: it is essentially conservative in effect, because even as it skewers a particular social folly or political peccadillo, it is implicitly affirming the larger social and political structure that makes both the… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
