Those brave, daring, cutting-edge rascals are at it again:
I'm not sure what comedy in its purest form looks like - a vial filed with the distilled essence of Larry David? A single frame of a Chaplin movie? A pause in a Bob & Ray routine? However you define it, comedy in its purest form always makes some people - what's the word I'm looking for? Right: laugh.That's the primary definition. If it make some people uncomfortable, fine, but that's not a necessary reaction.
The "uncomfortable" defense is usually raised when someone kicks around a social convention, as if some people's discomfort means the work has artistic merit. As if it's automatically better because it challenges convention, not reinforces them. Do we love Spongebob because it makes us uncomfortable?
Then again, maybe he's right. There are some Looney Tunes that make me somewhat uncomfortable. Like whenever Bugs cross-dressed. In one such cartoon he married Elmer. I don't think that was fair, or wise; Fudd had a horrible temper and a self-loading shotgun. But it was funny. So maybe he's right.
