Well, I was close to guessing the content of your next post.
It had France, The Blade and Whales (somehow).
I was going to add yesterday that we'd need a bigger blade, if that was your purpose.
I want to echoe your plea: People want and need to laugh. People also need to have freedom to choose what is offensive and just ignore it and embrace what they find amusing or even insightful without having to deal with prudish objections.
One of the legacies of the bolivarian revolution is that it extinguished all humorous TV shows, starting with Radio Rochela, a show any venezuelan over 30 remembers and misses. They went to far as erasing the whole TV Channel that produced it (RCTV) and made sure the example would keep any wannabe satirist in line.
I do not have anything against Mimes in particular (Chaplin was one, sort of, and left his mark), but humor must have substance; it must want to shock and make people think about it after they're done laughing.
@hlezama,
As usual, great comment.
One of the things one notices about Leftist Utopian Revolutions (all of them) is a complete lack of humor. Everyone has to be morose all the time. No laughing allowed ... or at least not aloud. And satirists, zero tolerance. I am highly suspicious of any group of people who cannot look at themselves and find something about which to smile ... they're not being realistic, or perhaps more accurately, they're not being honest.
Quill
And the funny thing is that these authoritarian rulers tend to be such idiots that they make it very hard not to joke about them.
Humorist, Laureano Marquez has said repeatedly that the chavistas made it really hard for humorists to make a living. Not so much because of the censorship, but 1) because they produce so much hilarious material it is hard to catch up, and 2) because what they do in real life is so stupidly funny, there is nothing original professional humorists can do to make the jokes. These politicians are already living jokes
@hlezama,
Henrry, it's true.
Hyperbole is the indispensable weapon of satirists ... but how does one exaggerate something that's already unbelievably exaggerated? It stops being plausible and people just groan.
Stupidity so stupid ... that it trips ass-backwards into brilliance. :-)
Quill