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This is a great interview with Chris Morris from The Sound of Young America, worth listening to if only for the host’s bizarre pronunciation of ‘revered’.
Particularly fine is Morris on whether or not it is wrong to ‘humanise’ jihadis (from about 25 mins in). The quotation above is just the beginning of an excellent explanation of why humanising people wh0 do awful things is not just acceptable, but essential.
Nathaniel Tapley 
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November 5, 2010 at 7:19 am
Posky
What is wrong with that host and why can’t he pronounce “revered?”
I like that your progress into comedy included not taking peoples deaths seriously and making light of the news.
November 5, 2010 at 10:55 am
Nathaniel Tapley
I’ve personally not been taking people’s deaths seriously for at least 20 years. Blackadder Goes Forth was about the deaths of more than 9 million people. The old lady’s heart attack in A Fish Called Wanda (and Ken’s reaction) are hilarious. Kind Hearts And Coronets is about a spectacular series of murders.
I think you’d be hard-pressed to explain why a comedy about one murderous gang of criminals (say, The Ladykillers) is morally superior to another (Four Lions). Still, I suppose you could compile a list of those subjects for which comedy is appropriate, and those for which it is not, and then we could compare everyone’s lists and only make jokes about things everyone thinks are acceptable subjects for comedy, like supermarket queues, people’s behaviour at weddings, and immigrants.