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I vaguely remember seeing that part of the reason he quit was that he felt satire had no purpose and no possibility of success in a country which elected Richar
by Analemma_ 2y ago
I vaguely remember seeing that part of the reason he quit was that he felt satire had no purpose and no possibility of success in a country which elected Richard Nixon. Which may have been sort of brilliantly prescient of him, considering how popular stuff like The Daily Show / The Colbert Report was in the 2000s and yet how toothless and impotent they seem in the face of current political developments.
- bambax 2y agoThe article does address this: > we do know that he believed satire changed nothing. He quoted approvingly Peter Cook’s sarcastic remark about the Berlin cabarets of the 1930s that did so much to prevent the rise of Hitler and the second world war.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> He could just about stay detached enough to be funny about Eisenhower’s America. compare "Our Long National Nightmare": https://legacy.npr.org/assets/news/2013/onion-bush.pdf https://legacy.npr.org/assets/news/2013/onion-bush.pdf