When Reality is Beyond Parody
Office Hours with Georgia Howe
The Daily Wire
4.8 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to Office Hours with me, Georgia Howe. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a weekly companion series to Prager You's popular five-minute videos, |
| 0:12.0 | where I explore various political and cultural topics with Prager You experts, |
| 0:16.0 | asking questions and digging deeper to bring you perspectives that you may not hear in a traditional college classroom. To watch the video version of this series, click on the link in the description, |
| 0:24.6 | or go to DailyWire.com. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to Office Hours. I'm Georgia Howe with the Daily Wire. Today, we sit down with |
| 0:35.6 | Seth Dillon, the CEO of my favorite satire site, The Babylon B. |
| 0:40.2 | Seth's new Prager You video is titled Killing Comedy, where he talks about what it's like trying to write satire when reality has become beyond parody. |
| 0:47.9 | Seth also addresses the power of satire to combat bad ideas in society. |
| 0:51.9 | Let's jump right in. |
| 0:58.4 | Hi. combat bad ideas in society. Let's jump right in. So, Seth, I'm really excited to have you here because I just want you to know your sight brings |
| 1:03.6 | me like deep personal joy. And I think probably a lot of people watching this feel the same way. |
| 1:08.2 | So thank you so much. I love hearing that. That's good to hear. |
| 1:16.6 | In your video, you talk about how the world has become too absurd even for satire. Do you get the sense that the level of absurdity we've reached is unsustainable and not just for you as a comic, but for |
| 1:22.3 | society in general? And where do you think we go from here? Well, it's unsustainable in one sense. |
| 1:29.7 | I mean, you have, so I lead the video with this quote of G.K. Chesterton saying, yeah, |
| 1:33.3 | the world has become too absurd to be satirized. |
| 1:35.2 | He said that in 1911. |
| 1:37.4 | And I would just, you know, I just can't imagine what he would say if he were alive now |
| 1:42.2 | with all the absurd things that are happening. |
| 1:44.9 | It does, it makes the project of comedy so difficult because it's hard to exaggerate, |
| 1:49.9 | you know, it's already such an exaggeration in a parody of itself. Of course, that's, |
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