Ideological Comedy
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.176
Ideology and Equality > Class Struggle at the Carnival
Theoretical move: Comedy has no inherent political valence; the distinction between egalitarian and ideological comedy lies not in who produces or targets it, but in whether it reveals internal division/splitting in both subject and object (egalitarian) or sustains a sense of wholeness that reinforces social authority (ideological).
When comedy subtends a sense of wholeness in either the subject or the social order, it functions ideologically and helps to entrench a belief in the intractability of social authority.