Is Comedy Degrading? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Market-driven comedy: Make fun, nothing is sacred || Acharya Prashant, Advait Mahotsav (2021)

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00:00See, that's the cheapest thing to do, no?

00:02Yeah, definitely.

00:03To make fun.

00:04That's what so many people do.

00:06Scoff at somebody.

00:08Taunt.

00:08Make fun.

00:09And especially when you know that there is going to be no reprisal.

00:13If you know that there are going to be consequences,

00:16then making fun is not so cheap.

00:19Price has to be paid.

00:20So pick a target that's not going to retaliate

00:23and keep poking fun.

00:25Keep humiliating.

00:26This is just falseness at so many levels.

00:29There is ignorance in it.

00:30There is violence in it.

00:32But I want to ask you something.

00:34Would these people continue with what they are doing

00:37if their tickets do not sell and their videos do not get views?

00:41They do this for a living, right?

00:44They are making money either from the tickets

00:46or from Amazon or Netflix or YouTube.

00:48Where's that money coming from?

00:50It's coming from us.

00:51That's the kind of content we enjoy.