Things can be very serious and funny at the same time.
Come now, one of the authors is the President’s dog, and most of the other authors have names that are plays on words. And the entire article satirizes Didier Raoult’s ridiculous prediction.
This “stunt” speaks to a very serious problem, but it does so in a very funny way. That isn’t new, either. Comics often use humour to address deeply serious problems. Eddie Murphy made a legendary Saturday Night Live skit called, “White Like Me” that spoke to white privilege by positing a secret, hidden agreement amongst white Americans where everything is free for whites, it’s only non-whites who have to pay for goods or qualify for bank loans.
Serious? Very, just ask the people protesting racial injustice in America. Funny stuff? Also very.
I am sad that when the article explains the joke names and affiliations they missed that one of the authors is apparently based in Ankh Morpork. The Unseen University needs to pump up that impact factor!
Come now, one of the authors is the President’s dog, and most of the other authors have names that are plays on words. And the entire article satirizes Didier Raoult’s ridiculous prediction.
This “stunt” speaks to a very serious problem, but it does so in a very funny way. That isn’t new, either. Comics often use humour to address deeply serious problems. Eddie Murphy made a legendary Saturday Night Live skit called, “White Like Me” that spoke to white privilege by positing a secret, hidden agreement amongst white Americans where everything is free for whites, it’s only non-whites who have to pay for goods or qualify for bank loans.
Serious? Very, just ask the people protesting racial injustice in America. Funny stuff? Also very.