And picked up a few hits of something or another while treading his path. Comedian, satirist, publisher of the now-notorious The Realist , Krass is a man who isn't afraid to speak about what's on his mind and with so much happening in the world today, we thought we'd tap into his email box and get some groovy dialogue going. We were just rereading through some of the old Realists and paying close attention to some of the articles on and interviews with Lenny Bruce and it got us to thinking how biting and visionary his work really was and how today we're stuck with the likes of Seinfeld who is perhaps funny but not a stinging social satirist working in what in the 60's was called dark comedy. Comedy is like any other business. When it's mass produced, the products are interchangeable.
Comedians copy from other comedians.
One comedy club owner even admitted that he encourages such imitation because it gives the audience a sense of familiarity. Plus television shows, ancient and current, because they are shared cultural experiences. Meanwhile, Robert Klein and David Brenner are becoming this generation's Bob Hope and George Burns. Uhm, we forgot. But while we're on the subject, tell us point blank why the mass TV audience and the media in particular have fetishized the OJ trial.