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Video interview: A Tight Five with Nick Di Paolo
by Dylan P. Gadino
November 19, 2008
In a new episode of our series A Tight Five, shot at Comix comedy club in New York City and edited by the fine folks at RooftopComedy, editor Dylan Gadino sits down with comedian Nick Di Paolo. And then they talk… about comedy and stuff. Make sure you check out Nick at nickdip.com. Enjoy!
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As much as I appreciate Nick for being up front about his political views, they seem to blind him to a basic element of satire in comedy. Great satire uses humor to ridicule the shortcomings, hypocrisies and foibles of the powerful. So when they go after white Republicans, it’s not because of “political correctness”; that’s a catchall phrase for people not thinking it through very deeply. It’s because satire is a way to ridicule the powerful, and white conservatives have had the power for the last 8 years, well….
Doesn’t take a genius to put this together, Nick. When Jon Stewart starts skewering the ineffectiveness and idiocy of Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress, don’t look for Nicky to change his tune.