“['Saturday Night Live's] screw-you [humor] .. adroitly mocks society's victims.
...For all its innovations this kind of satire tells society's nebbishes that they are right about themselves, that they are nobodies, that to be so un-hip as to be disadvantaged, to be ignorant, to be physically infirm, or black, or even female is to invite contempt.
...What worries me about Slash and Burn humor, and the larger society which has spawned it, is that it reflects a sort of callousness so prevalent in the survivalist ethic. If this is to become a society intolerant of failure and uncompassionate in the face of suffering, then we are lost.”
NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED; ellipted; italics added;
In 1981 Trudeau was an even more popular satirical cartoonist than he is now. At Colby he was giving his opinion to graduating college students many of whom had also become fans of the hit show Saturday Night Live (after its 6th season).
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