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Reaksjonene kommer — på publiseringen og avpubliseringen. Men hva sier dette om verdier og grenser generelt i NRK og i samfunnet? Håper det ikke ender opp med å handle om person og komiker.

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En ny kulturkrasj-humordebatt i emning? Denne gangen er det «endelig» asiatisk på menyen — som jo er litt overraskende med tanke på hvor mye fokus det har vært på akkurat dette temaet i den siste tiden. Men, som alle disse debattene, står den i fare for å bli litt meta... men kanskje vi har blitt flinkere til å bruke slike saker til å diskutere tema, ikke person? Jeg er spent.

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«En kultur for ytringsfrihet måtte læres, også den gangen; det måtte utvikles en forståelse av koblingene mellom frihet, makt og ansvar.

Den typen hån, hets og harselas som vi kjenner i dag, er altså ikke ny. Men plattformene, omfanget og spredningshastigheten er radikalt endret.»

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... and the showbiz experts seem to agree. The segment is currently nominated to an Emmy! 😃

https://www.emmys.com/shows/late-night-seth-meyers-corrections

And so is Amber Ruffin for her «Outstanding Writing» team on The Amber Ruffin Show! 😃

https://www.emmys.com/shows/amber-ruffin-show

Seth Meyers' CORRECTIONS – The weekly digital exclusive where the Late Night host answers online commentators and trolls to correct his mistakes, because "all great art is at its best when it is crowd-sourced".

The segment perfectly encapsulates the current environment of taking jokes extremely seriously, logically breaking down the implications, exposing misconceptions and lazy writing, and the comedian's apology or defense of their interpretation.

This is really a look behind the curtain of how the Late Night writers' room works, and how impossible it is to please everyone online. There are always someone getting offended, or having a different level of knowledge on any given topic, deeming the joke inaccurate or missing the mark.

I truly enjoy these segments. Both because it escalates the serious meta-jokes to an absurd level, and because it illustrates the problem of entertaining an international audience with vastly different cultural references, taboos, and sensibilities.

There is also something inherently funny in a comedian desperately trying to win everyone over, and stumbling further into his own pitfalls, growing increasingly frustrated with both his audience and his own need for approval.

(And I really enjoy hearing Amber Ruffin's laughter – and the rest of the team – in the background... and Seth's perfect impression of his producer "Mikey the Shoe"... and Vince Vaughn. So many running gags already.)

This is one of the most well-designed formats I've seen in a while.

👏👏👏

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Tre betydningsfulle satirikere som har gått bort de siste månedene

Jeg hadde den udelte glede å møte og snakke med to av dem — om satire, verdier, og livet. Bare det å få møte Else Michelet føltes som en berikelse av mitt eget liv. Hun tok i mot meg i sitt hjelm, og i løpet av en hel dag fikk jeg opplevd hennes overbevisning og dedikasjon — som jeg ble dypt inspirert av. Per Inge Torkelsen fikk jeg møte over en kaffe på Bristol og deretter en fin samtale på telefon. Mannen var full av latter og barnlig glede, og så ikke ut til å la se bekymre noe større av rettssaker og annen støy. Han var tryllekunstner i både ord og virke, proppfull av ideer til prosjekter vi dessverre ikke vil se resultatet av. Danske Westergaard har jeg ikke snakket med, men jeg kan tenke meg at han må ha hatt mange interessante tanker om satire og ytringsfrihetens grenser. Det er alltid trist at livet tar slutt — på et personlig og sosialt plan. Men det er også et offer for satirekunsten, for dette var tre modige, muntre stemmer, som satte et dypt preg på offentligheten. Mine tanker går til dem og deres nærmeste.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/9E8p2p/kurt-westergaard-er-doed

https://www.vg.no/rampelys/i/qA2lKg/per-inge-torkelsen-er-doed

https://www.nrk.no/kultur/else-michelet-er-dod-1.15481828

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The But & Therefore Rule

In improv you are trained to respond with a "Yes, and..." to your improv partner's suggestions. In storytelling the same applies with the concept of causality:

Event A happens, AND THEREFORE event B happens. – or –  Event A happens, BUT THEN event B happens.

It is storytelling in its most basic form.

South Park's Trey Parker explains in the documentary Six Days to Air:

“[I call it] the rule of replacing 'ands' with either 'buts' or 'therefores.' And so it’s always like: This happens and then this happens and then this happens. Whenever I can go back in the writing and change that to: This happens, therefore this happens, but this happened; whenever you can replace your 'ands' with 'buts' or 'therefores,' it makes for better writing.”

If you fall into the trap of “and then” storytelling, as Trey said in the video, “you’ve got something pretty boring.”

via StoryFirst or Nathan B. Weller.

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Er dette humor? Er det grensesøkende? Hvis det *ikke* er humor, hva er det da?

Som humor er dette internvitser som burde blitt kutta i en rekke ledd før boka nådde trykkeriet.

Som oppriktige navn er det kanskje en del av en protesterende subkultur — jfr. de mange anklagene om politisk korrekthet — som byr på en forfriskende (om enn noe etnosentrisk og historieløs) tone.

Hva tenker du? Hva tenker *jeg*?

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“Ytringsfriheten har sammen med en håndfull andre begreper, som «identitetspolitikk» og «cancel culture», erstattet ideen om «politisk korrekthet» som den nye høyresidas fremste retoriske våpen. Forskere som Gavan Titley har påpekt at det nå brukes en spesiell forståelse av «ytringsfrihet» for å kneble opposisjonelles samfunnskritikk av maktspråk og rasisme.”

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This song is a masterclass in homophones. Introducing the segment by establishing the grading system for peas on a scale of A to D, we are taken on a tour to the family pea farm of one of Alex Horne’s fellow musicians, where “you can taste the A-ness”... and the “pea-ness”.

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Satire concluded as free speech , as law student nearly lost his diploma at Stanford Law.

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If you like lawyer jokes, here are some of the best recorded interactions that have happened in actual courts or trials

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?

WITNESS: He said, ‘Where am I, Cathy?’

ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?

WITNESS: My name is Susan!

________

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

________

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?

WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

________

ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?

WITNESS: July 18th.

ATTORNEY: What year?

WITNESS: Every year.

________

ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?

WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which.

ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?

WITNESS: Forty-five years.

________

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?

WITNESS: I forget..

ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?

________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?

WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?

WITNESS: He’s 20, much like your IQ.

________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?

WITNESS: Are you shitting me?

________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?

WITNESS: Getting laid

________

ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: How many were boys?

WITNESS: None.

ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?

WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?

________

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?

WITNESS: By death..

ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?

WITNESS: Take a guess.

________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?

WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard

ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?

WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I’m going with male.

________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?

WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

________

ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?

WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.

________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?

WITNESS: Oral…

________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?

WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM

ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?

WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.

________

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?

________

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?

WITNESS: No..

ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

________

ATTORNEY: How far can you see at night?

WITNESS: I can see the moon, how far is that?

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Seth Meyers' CORRECTIONS – The weekly digital exclusive where the Late Night host answers online commentators and trolls to correct his mistakes, because "all great art is at its best when it is crowd-sourced".

The segment perfectly encapsulates the current environment of taking jokes extremely seriously, logically breaking down the implications, exposing misconceptions and lazy writing, and the comedian's apology or defense of their interpretation.

This is really a look behind the curtain of how the Late Night writers' room works, and how impossible it is to please everyone online. There are always someone getting offended, or having a different level of knowledge on any given topic, deeming the joke inaccurate or missing the mark.

I truly enjoy these segments. Both because it escalates the serious meta-jokes to an absurd level, and because it illustrates the problem of entertaining an international audience with vastly different cultural references, taboos, and sensibilities.

There is also something inherently funny in a comedian desperately trying to win everyone over, and stumbling further into his own pitfalls, growing increasingly frustrated with both his audience and his own need for approval.

(And I really enjoy hearing Amber Ruffin's laughter – and the rest of the team – in the background... and Seth's perfect impression of his producer "Mikey the Shoe"... and Vince Vaughn. So many running gags already.)

This is one of the most well-designed formats I've seen in a while.

👏👏👏

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Falsk tulletelefon

«Selv om dette er et tulleprogram, så er det klart at hvis de legger til grunn at det er autentisk, så må de holde den normen. Medier undergraver sin egen troverdighet på mange måter om dagen. Dette er en av dem, sier Bodahl-Johansen til VG.»

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I dag kom den triste nyheten om at Else Michelet – den norske radiosatirens mor og vokter – har gått bort. Nyheten traff meg voldsomt. Jeg har selv møtt henne og snakket om satire og pionértida i radioen. Hun var et hjertelig, ekte menneske som jeg skulle ønske at jeg hadde fått anledning til å bli bedre kjent med.

Alt jeg kunne sagt her hadde jeg håpet å heller få sagt direkte til henne. Vi traff hverandre for halvannet år siden, før koronaen tvang verden i stans. Jeg er utrolig takknemlig for det møtet. Det føles trist å vite at det ikke kan skje igjen.

Michelet kan sies å være gullstandarden for den moralske satiriker i norsk radio. Hun hadde en tydelig politisk posisjon, og var ikke redd for å anklages både for å ha en agenda og å være venstrevridd. Men hun balanserte det likevel med en varme, omtanke og mildhet til inspirasjon og etterlevelse hos de neste generasjonene av radiohumorister.

Når jeg skriver om politisk humor, og hvorvidt satiren kan være en stemme i offentlighetens samtaler rundt politiske temaer, så fortjener Else Michelet både å nevnes og studeres.

Hun har berørt mange – gledet mange – og helt sikkert forarget mange. Men det har alltid vært med en prinsippfast og målbar ramme for satiren. Den skulle ikke krenke, men den skulle sparke oppover.

Michelet sparket seg hele veien til topps, og knuste et par glasstak på reisen.

Takk for smilet, Else. 🙌

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If you try and make something relatable, you fail. But if you just tell the truth of the things you’ve seen and the things that you viscerally responded to and had a gut reaction to, and made you laugh, the chances are there’s gonna be quite a few people who know why you laughed. A lot of what I do is… reportage, I suppose. But structuring that is where the work comes in.

– Greg Davies on relatable comedy

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Er politisk korrekthet et problem? Fritt ord og Institutt for samfunnsforskning har publisert oppdaterte funn for folkets oppfatning av ytringsfrihetens grenser, og provokatørenes rolle ser ut til å være på stigende kurs.