All good humor is R-rated, part 2.

The original is sitting on my old blog. I wrote this piece back in May because I needed to stress the fact that things are funnier when you don't have some shitty rating system holding you back; but in the months between that and this post, I was told that my sense of humor was "sarcastic" by my fans and "extremely destructive" by my critics. For those of you who have just joined us, the whole story was basically having a former friend tell me that I was not funny nor creative because I thought his preferred sense of humor was only for children and people who watch relics of the 90s (the Simpsons).

Comedy is an art I've always been interested in; it's also the only movie genre I watch with a serious interest. I mentioned that things are funnier when you don't have some arbitrary (and rather shitty) rating system holding you back. Comedy is supposed to "go there" (as in cross lines). It doesn't discriminate; everything is fair game. A good comedian crosses every single line when it comes to everybody to show that he's not against a certain race, gender, or what not—they're against it all.

The problem with comedy is that it's becoming stifled by political correctness and other people with no sense of humor. I find political correctness to be a form of fascism, and that people who promote it are no different from people like Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Stalin, etc., because free speech was something people fought and died for and now people are trying to make a mockery of that by saying "You can't say (insert controversial humorous statement here), it's offensive!"

South Park, while still amongst my favorite shows on TV, has greatly toned down its offensiveness. Is it because people are no longer offended by it, or because Trey Parker and Matt Stone "went there" with 200 and 201 (which, by the way, are still not aired on their website, and where it is aired, it's not aired uncensored)? I honestly think it's the latter more than the former, because people get offended over the most stupid shit. I've been waiting over two years for the uncensored version, and I've all but given up hope. I hope they anger someone again, so that we can have another controversy.

In the end? All good humor is still R-rated. The problem is that "good humor" is always under assault by somebody, whether it be politically correct fascists or people who have no sense of humor. It's tough to say what is "good" humor and what is "shitty" humor, but we can't find out if we constantly have to censor ourselves.