Humor and satire in W. Shakespeare's comedies

2.2. Humor in modern journalism.
I would like to touch upon a topic - the topic of a political anecdote, which can be considered a kind of mirror of political and social life. Obviously, today this genre is not developed in the same way as, say, 20-30 years ago. Today, there are very few good jokes in general. Despite the fact that the anecdote is considered a folk form of creativity, as a rule, almost every work in this genre has an author. By the way, a lot of anecdotes went to the people from the plots of "Gorodok". Today, humor has become serious business. All talented humorous authors (mostly people who have gone through the KVN school) are now in their hands. High-quality humor is hidden in computers protected by passwords. A good joke has become the equivalent of a currency. They save it, they just don’t scatter it like that, they try to squeeze the maximum out of it.
In the case of political jokes, the situation is different. A politician becomes the hero of an anecdote due to personal charisma, bright deeds, a special manner of speaking and dressing. In general, politicians can track their rating by anecdotes about them. There are no jokes - something must be done urgently! We have to run and hire those same ex -KVEEN authors to write something about them. And if earlier the KGB sought out and pressed those who persecuted jokes about the supreme power, today the FSB should find these people in order to encourage them. Here are some political jokes:
- Mikhalych , have you heard that elections were held in the regions? Now the good life will come...
- Frost will strike tomorrow, however!
- What about elections and frost?
- And where does the election and the good life?!
Russian oil is of 2 types. You all know these two types well...
A man comes to a car dealership:
- I want Lada-Kalina-Sport, like the prime minister!
- Please - one million dollars! - ....?! - Special equipment : an additional car in case of a breakdown, a bus with spare parts and six escort SUVs.
- Vladimir Vladimirovich, tell me, have you ever cheated on your wife?
- Yes, I still hide from her that I am no longer the president of the country ...
Small and ugly boys in ancient Sparta were thrown into the abyss, but in our country they rule the state.
It is also important to note the presence of a certain type of jokes containing signs of hidden envy: from recent history, these are jokes where the “new Russians” are ridiculed:
A beautiful girl is walking around the city, a guy is coming to get acquainted. Dialogue:
- Girl, let's get acquainted, I really liked you, you are so beautiful ...
- Do you have a raspberry jacket? - No. - And Merc ?
- No. - And the two-story mansion? - No. - Well, then it’s okay to get to know each other. The guy comes home in frustrated feelings, tells everything to his father, to which he says: - Son, if you want, of course, we can remove the raspberry jacket from our butler, sell your Lexus and buy 2 Mercedes , but demolish a 4-storey building for the sake of two floors... Fire!!
The new Russian bought a jeep and parked it near the house.
In the evening, a wino walks and reads in the back of a 4x4 jeep. Without thinking for a long time, he takes out a nail and scratches: 4X4 = 16. In the morning, the evil owner goes to the service and paints over this place. The next day, history repeats itself, and so the whole week. In the end, exhausted, the owner of the jeep goes to the service and asks to make a branded inscription 4X4 = 16. Satisfied, he drives home, parks his car near the house. The drunk goes in the evening and sees: 4X4 = 16 He takes out a nail and writes, CORRECT
This is a sign of social antagonisms, dislike for the "new rich". One of the motives for this feeling may be envy of the rich life of another, although it should not be forgotten that the ridiculed social stratum was a rich source for creating jokes. Further, as a response to many beauty contests, jokes about blondes appeared and were actively picked up , although it is clear that hair color does not affect intelligence:
Two blondes are talking in a compartment of the train:
- It's amazing how the driver always manages to accurately enter the tunnel. I can't always get into the garage for sure . It
's probably because he knows the way well.
blonde in the pizzeria , the waiter comes up
- do you want the pizza into 4 parts or into 8, cut?
- oh, of course, for 4, I won’t eat 8 !!!
Laughter is also possible in a sphere that goes beyond some morality. Thus, the object of the funny in the new jokes of our time is often murder or violence. And such phenomena are definitely present in the modern culture of laughter, although they cause various disputes with public morality. Perhaps this is more suitable for youth humor, which is often characterized by innocent savagery, which comes from a shallow understanding of moral principles, an imposed model of their perception, which is rejected by ridicule. The point here is rather in the way the story is presented and the mechanism of action. An absurd and cruel modern anecdote makes fun, including in situations that are fundamentally not funny for a person of a “romantic” warehouse. And here one can see a tendency towards the totalization of ridicule - absolutely everything is funny and they try to find only funny sides in everything. Perhaps this is due to the physiological effect of laughter - laughter is pleasurable and can act as something like a drug. This is a philosophical question...
The anecdote is still peculiar - and this, perhaps, is its main charm - absolute fearlessness. The anecdote attracts with the type of freedom that a person, by definition, values most of all - freedom that does not oblige him to anything. A normal anecdote does not threaten anything, does not call anywhere and does not demand anything. The anecdote is free from any prescriptions. To those who take it, it promises pure, playful pleasure. Thus the anecdote works therapeutically. He removes the fear of the world not only by the fact that he equalizes everything and everyone in it (although this equalization is carried out only in fantasy and the anecdote understands this), but also by the fact that he is indulgent towards the real world, giving him the opportunity to remain himself.
Anecdote as a kind of language game, fun, absolutely unconsciously creates common meanings and meanings. Therefore, an anecdote turns out to be one of the easiest ways to get to another person - it is not binding to anything and does not bind anything. An anecdote brings people together, removes alienation between them, preserving their autonomy and independence.
A wise parable is characteristic of the best anecdotes. It is no coincidence that some formulas of these anecdotes turned into aphorisms and statements summarizing our life experience: “Don’t make a wave!”, “Go prove that you are not a camel!”, “Is this life?”, “I would have your worries, mister teacher! » etc. At the same time, there is a significant difference between jokes and statements and aphorisms. This is their deliberate anonymity. Even when an anecdote has an official author, as a rule, it is not advertised, and often vice versa - it is leveled, making the anecdote the property of the whole people.
The vitality of an anecdote is conditioned by the anecdotism of life. One of the Polish jokes contains the following dialogue:

- Do you have a new joke?

- Not. What about you?
- Neither. Ugh! What kind of government?!

The fact that the vitality of an anecdote is due to the anecdotism of life can be seen by reading numerous anecdotes on the Internet. Strained attempts to come up with a new anecdote only sometimes lead to success. And this happens only when you manage to peep and succinctly present a really funny case or an anecdotal situation in life. Andersen said that the best fairy tales are those that life itself comes up with. This applies even more to the joke.

Caricature.
Political caricature has practically disappeared from the pages of Russian newspapers. You can now see Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev drawn in a funny way only on the Internet.
The well-known cartoonist Viktor Bogorad publishes his drawings in the daily Vedomosti, which specializes in economics, and in The Moscow Times , which is read by foreigners living in Moscow. This group of the population has no influence on political life.
“ If there is no political struggle, or if most newspapers depend on the government, then there is no political cartoon,” explains the 61-year-old cartoonist, who clandestinely distributed his own drawings during the Soviet era. “Everything related to political satire should be searched on the Internet, which is still free space,” he continues. Bogorad says that it is now impossible to draw a caricature even of regional officials. “When was the last time you saw a
caricature of the governor (meaning the governor of St. In the Kremlin of Dmitry Medvedev, on specialized sites. One of the drawings shows the Prime Minister in a tie in the color of the Soviet flag, brandishing a Medvedev doll. In the same vein, the artist Vladimir Molchanov shows Vladimir Putin looking in the mirror and seeing the reflection of the current president of Russia. According to numerous analysts, the country is run by a prime minister, even though he left the presidency in 2008, because the constitution prohibits running for a third term.If
such an art form still exists, it has become secret, almost "underground", says Viktor Shenderovich, creator of the 1990s TV show "Dolls" .