Comedy With A Message -- The Disappearance Of REAL Rebellion From Art

DriftingByTheStorm

What happened to it?

Watching this Robin Williams clip from Comic Relief '87 almost daunted me.

The level of political comprehension the audience must have required to get and laugh at those jokes is so far out of the realm of what i see possible in modern America.

Listen to that shit.
Especially the last half.
Not only is it comforting and humorous to hear history repeating, it begs the question, why -- like all the other arts -- has comedy become so utterly irrelevant and banal?

Another great example of how the arts have so utterly missed the chance to express something relevant is looking to even a video like Metallica's One ... splicing those Johnny Got His Gun clips, "will you want me to go?" ... "for democracy" ...

... even that simple touch seems lost in todays art.

Am i blind, or is everything so manufactured "by them" these days, that there is so little visible dissent in the arts its scary.

Bad times are supposed to breed great art.
Are things still too good?
Or is the state of society already too bad
for these productions to occur?

Post links you think are related.
Not just lots of Bill Hicks clips though.