> You can have a message and point of view, but don't put activism over comedy. As Jon Stewart put it in the Crossfire interview where they asked him “which ca

> You can have a message and point of view, but don't put activism over comedy. As Jon Stewart put it in the Crossfire interview where they asked him “which candidate do you supposed would provide you better material if he won?” because he has “a stake in it that way, not just as citizen but as a professional comic”, the citizen part is much more important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=599s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=599s The point of satire is social criticism first, funny second. I have little doubt everyone at the Onion responsible for reposting that headline would a million times prefer that they didn’t have to do it ever because the situation were resolved. > It's just so exhausting. It really says something about the state of society when an atrocity is perpetrated over and over and the complaint is that someone keeps talking about it rather than the atrocity continuing to happen.