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[lollardfish]

Can anyone more knowledgeable than I point out any examples of the Vilification Tennis show doing productive social satire - that is, making fun of something in order to demonstrate its impropriety or nonsensical nature?

I'm seeing excuses that I shouldn't be offended at their upcoming show because it's productive social satire.

I think it's just an excuse and the show isn't about satire, it's about getting laughs by being as mean as possible. They are really good at it. They get a lot of laughs. I think they're kidding themselves about the satire, but I'm not that familiar with their shows.

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[(Anonymous)]

I am on the cast of Vil Tennis and the following is my opinion and does not reflect or represent the other jerks in Vil Tennis.
I personally do not care about providing "productive social satire". I am not even sure I understand what that is suppose to mean.
My job is to make people laugh. I do my job and I do it well. I'm not doing shows to make statements.

Mark L

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I didn't think so, Mark. But the claim has been made (see below), and I wanted to hear examples as I couldn't think of any.

I think it's a superb example of cruelty humor.