From the mind of critic: “If comedians, comedic TV shows, skit comedy shows, late night shows and satirists are overflowing with a tsunami of material that keeps getting taller, stronger and deeper as the people in power get more ridiculous, is it a positve thing? Is it a good thing that it’s so easy to make fun out of people at the top, does it actually help our progress forward as a species because more people can more easily see, and then act on the day to …day hypocrisy if they can laugh at it first? Or is our society, humanity and descency on the decline because making fun is easy, proving the easier it is to lob insults and tell jokes, the worse we’re collectively devolving? Laughter is the best medicine is an old cliche for a reason. If we can’t laugh at ourselves and where we have to improve, serious doubt can creep in as to whether our humanity is on the decline, because we’re so messed up that we have to laugh, or we’d cry. Once we realize that laughter is used as a coping skill and an educational skill, and often at the same time, we’ll see that comedy is made for all sorts of reasons, that serve all sorts of agendas. However, when we do learn to laugh including but not exclusively about ourselves, we’ll see that once we are in a happy and positive mood, we are way more likely to not only take positive action, but also for ascertaining the facts that would spur that action. Laughter is as much medicine as it is motivation. May we always applaud those who make that concept easier to understand” 