>I think that's a lot of what it is. Shocking can be funny.
>Part of South Park's initial appeal was seeing little kid's
>laugh. People have been more interested in Bob Saget's
>stand-up now because it is blue and it is shocking to hear him
>talk like that (even though he was always like that, even
>before Full House). It's my opinion though that the difference
>is that shock is most of Silverman's appeal. It's too much.
>Some people ascribe "irony" to it when really most of it's
>only shocking.

Honestly, if there *is* one thing that I earnestly endeavor to change, it's the death of irony. Too many people are just completely trapped, only expressing themselves in ironic or sarcastic terms, and I really think it prevents them from building to bigger things, because they can never really express themselves. I mean, it has its place and all, but some people definitely get trapped and start drowning in it, unable to reach for anything bigger.

So yeah, I think irony is a cop-out a lot of the time, and people really just use it when they can't think of anything better to say.