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March 22, 2005
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UPDATE: And Get Your War On.
Posted at March 22, 2005 01:19 PM | TrackBackExcellent pairing, Jonathan.
Being a politically-oriented kid, I remember both the Karen Ann Quinlan case and the SNL skit Perrin lays out. I was 14 or 15. For a brief while, in those early SNL years, television was dangerous and fun. There's still the subversive humor of The Simpsons and, to a significantly lesser extent, MadTV, but it's hard for today's whippersnappers to understand how revolutionary SNL was, at least for a time.
I really need to read Perrin's Michael O'Donoghue biography. I'll never forget O'Donoghue's "needles" bit and "The Little School Bus That Couldn't." I miss that morbid, truthful brand of humor and like to think O'Donaghue would've appreciated seeing Scalia lopping off Beaver Cleaver's head. Strangely, some people don't.
Rees' brutally honest Get Your War On comports nicely with O'Donaghue's sick, clever, visceral humor.
Posted by: Arvin Hill at March 22, 2005 09:16 PM
