[UA] Cheezbooger and SNL (was RE: A Cliomancer's Wet Dream?)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 10:33 PM 04/17/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>Maybe I'm still high from the ether-- er, airplane glu-- er,
>from the UA WKRP idea, but I was just struck by just how many
>SNL sketches could add significant freakiness, played totally
>straight or, worse yet, clued-in:

We have a word -- farce -- for when you take something serious and play it
for laughs, but where's the word for when you take something funny and
reveal an underlying seriousness?

Can you imagine "Gilligan's Island" played totally straight?

-G.
They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed
at Bozo the Clown.
                            --Carl Sagan

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