if you're into the whole, "I'm embarrassed to be a [white] male in this country" vibe that plays so well.
All that aside, this paragraph bothered me the most for some reason. It just reeks of someone that's trying too hard to be profound.
Quote:
Artie Lange once framed comedy as an addiction, one of many he admits he's had to juggle throughout his adult life. "Ask any comedian, when an audience erupts at something you say, nothing else matters," he wrote in his second (!) autobiography. "It's like tossing a bucket of blood into the water when a hungry shark is around: once a comedian gets a taste for laughter, they'll hunt it down by whatever means necessary." And that's telling, because it's a reminder that laughs are the ONLY goal in comedy, and that everything used in service of getting them is mostly illusory, including the truth. You, the comedy enjoyer, are a mark. Lange, like other comedians, wants you to think that this addiction is some kind of plight, when really it's just a way of selling their own personal misery to justify whatever jokes they need to make to get their fix.
well no **** Drew.
Believe it or not, there are comedians out there that can go blue without acting out every impulse in real life. And as much as you hate to admit it, men (and women) have a deviant side to them and it can be used in a humorous manner. Comedy as catharsis is not a new idea.
