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> It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They w
by charlieflowers 8y ago
> It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.
I have seen this occasionally from stand up comedians. It can be pretty effective to mingle entertainment with piercing satire.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoWhen I think of the main people who helped me stay sane and not become 100% bitter in my 20s, two out of three are comedians: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Noam Chomsky. I don't care if they are cliché, IMO they are for good reason :) > "He was taking fully the role of the witch-doctor in front of the audience... like a big, giant exorcism of all the evil shit that's inside of us, that poisons us day to day. Talk shows aren't gonna help it, the news isn't.. You just need a guy to get up there, take you by the lapels and shake the shit out of you." -- Eric Bogosian about Bill Hicks