If one were to look at comedy today, the majority of it is a parody of social tragedies and personal strife, for example a College Humor video titled “Diet Racism” satirized the existence of racism in our society today, another example is famous comedian and actor Kevin Hart who has a special called Laugh at my pain which is filled with jokes made on his long and hard divorce with the mother of his children. These acts take something deep and tragic and turn it into something that makes people laugh and provide an escape from reality. By presenting the connection between the two in the form of the coin metaphor, Hazlitt successfully conveys his argument that there is a relationship between the
If one were to look at comedy today, the majority of it is a parody of social tragedies and personal strife, for example a College Humor video titled “Diet Racism” satirized the existence of racism in our society today, another example is famous comedian and actor Kevin Hart who has a special called Laugh at my pain which is filled with jokes made on his long and hard divorce with the mother of his children. These acts take something deep and tragic and turn it into something that makes people laugh and provide an escape from reality. By presenting the connection between the two in the form of the coin metaphor, Hazlitt successfully conveys his argument that there is a relationship between the