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Comedy = Shock value for shock value's sake?

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Westrunner:
I've found actual highbrow comedy to be a rare beast. Even classics like Bill Cosby or the conservative favorite "Everybody loves Raymond" contain a decent amount of innuendo, if not plain dick and fart jokes. I can't think of an example of pure highbrow at this point, but Southpark does seem to be the most intelligent thing on television at times. Certainly not the cable news shoes with Paris/LiLo/Britney running around everywhere.

I whether shock value will exist for our children. I mean at this point the only things I can't watch are probably snuff films and "2 girls 1 cup". If the inertia of sensitive culture continues in 10 years comedy central is going to be showing baby snuff films with liberal amounts of excrement every day at noon. Come to think of it, using babies totally eliminates the need to justify the feces.

I wonder how international of a problem this is amongst the free countries of Europe and Asia.

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