But mistermann is right; his point is the critical one, and you've responded to it by changing the subject. Another humorist who does this, in a meaner way, is

But mistermann is right; his point is the critical one, and you've responded to it by changing the subject. Another humorist who does this, in a meaner way, is Sasha Baron-Cohen. The lesson here is not how ridiculous the people being ridiculed are, but rather: Who controls the editing controls everything. (Christopher Hitchens said brilliantly about the dinner party scene in Borat that it showed not how racist Americans are, but how polite they are.) Mercer's portrayals of Americans are not portrayals of Americans at all, but of Canadians' self-congratulatory caricatures of Americans. It makes me cringe with embarrassment.