Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Funny in places. Playing a populist audience hunter comedian by suggesting groups of people should be and are seen in light of the extremes of the group. Distortions of reality in places. Overriding it all, more of the tone and attitude that shit me about people like Maher:

To be sure, Maher's ridiculous, snarky comments were intended to provoke outrage and get himself back in the news cycle to help the ratings of his sagging HBO show, but even so, he was echoing a time-honored societal prejudice: comics have no significant value as literature or art. Or as my father would say, they're not "real" books. Notably, Maher readily admits that he never reads comics (even as a kid), so, like any true media blowhard, he's declared himself an authority on a subject he has absolutely zero knowledge or experience in.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bill-maher-wrong-why-we-do-need-take-comics-seriously-scott-marcano

He could have included that historians will write of us as a people who strived to make money by
promoting their own books on their own tv shows. Books that most people would not bother to read.