Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of '99...

This is Chris Rock's No Sex (in the Champagne Room). This is parody. It is a genre of comedy that means something to me. Straight forward comedy (knock knock jokes and the like) are meant to entertain, purely and simply. The illicit a gut reaction. Hopefully. Satire is trying to sell you something. Satire takes some ideal, some establishment, some cultural norm, or some icon and casts a distinctly different light on it in order to reduce the awe it's given. It's usually political.* There's a place for satire, but it isn't pure comedy.

Parody, by it's very existence, is a joke. This video, is a joke. One big joke, with lots of other little jokes inside, like those South American fish whose babies hide in thier mouths. ** You know what I'm talking about? A failed metaphor is immaterial to the point of the post, which is, parody is good. It seems liek the laziest form of funny there is. I mean, the intent is to copy someone elses form. Watch Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)*** and you'll understand what I mean. Watch any Mel Brooks movie, and you'll get a better idea.

parody is that special kind of humor whose worth is based on it's attention to detail, it's mimicing of the orinal work, and it's ability to make every last bit funny. That's a lot of work. Thank you, all ye parody artists, thank you for taking the time to make those well read cultured people understand jokes that the FOX watching simpletons can't comprehend.

And Finally, Cornbread: Ain' nothin wrong with that.

*This isn't satire, I was looking for good Jon Stewart or Stephan Colbert clips...but this is important, and if I get any of you to watch this I feel like life, as a whole, is better.

**This isn't the actual fish, it's a clip from When Harry Met Sally because I couldn't remember what the real fish was called.

***This video's right below this writing. Watch that, and you'll get the above. Also, you might learn something...about life