Lenny BruceSatire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Satire and irony and intellectual humor, these words and phrases themselves are an attempt at creating humor and humor takes time. For example, if you were to try and do a joke that is actually funny, the audience would probably just laugh at the first sound of it and not let you finish. While this kind of humor can be effective it is often hard to get people to take it seriously. This quote by the great satirist Sigmund Freud shows that this kind of humor can be effective after enough time has passed.
Source: The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines
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