I found this interesting little video on ill doctrine (a pretty sweet hip hop vlog) where Jay Smooth talks about the ethics of satire.
He's right about it being very easy to just make fun of someone for a laugh. We've all been there (humour me please) where we've said something sorta mean about some random person to get a laugh and then the person turns out to be like no armed or something. But that's really a different issue than mocking celebrities who do make their lives very much part of their ad campaigns (check out the Extras Christmas Special). So it becomes a little trickier, like he says, to know if the respective star has forfeited their right to not be comedically objectified by, you know, saying things like this.
If you got time also check out the ill doctrine video on CNN and WWE.
2 comments:
thanks for not taking this opportunity to stick it to me, is this like my Christmas present or something?
People should read this.
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