The entertainment industry has come a long way from its
early origins during the Pleistocene Epoch, when troops of Neanderthals wandered
from cave to cavern entertaining the residents with the crude humor of the day –
generally involving skits showing the foibles of everyday life like getting
eaten by a large cat (an age before litter boxes), or crushed by a woolly mammoth.
That style of humor was transitioned into the modern era by
the comedic genius of Moe Howard. Moe,
his friend Larry Fine, and a string of brothers, or brother look-alikes, entertained
at least two generations of families and inspired millions of children to learn
the art of the eye poke and the (then) recently developed eye poke block.
Today the humorist styling of the Neanderthals and the
Three Stooges is carried forward, politically refreshed, and feminized, by the
likes of Kathy Griffin, a second or third-tier personality who in an effort to
amuse her fans has taken to the new social media to poke fun at display
her slicing wit and offer the same social comedy as previous generations of mean
spirited comics. I am not sure the Neanderthals would have
approved of the mean spirit. After all, their art was done for fun and they had to live with their audiences after the show was over.
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