You'll find it in cucumber sandwiches, fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, and the horrid things they make out of the variety meats. On the other hand, popular culture isn't an exact replica of popular beliefs. The millions of women who buy sleazy crime books don't necessarily want anything in the books to happen to them. Our country's totally screwed up in its attitudes about work, sex, democracy, and ethics. But so's most every other country, in its own way.
Lame parody is the death of real humor.
J. Webb's Dragnet was a helluva lot funnier than D. Aykroyd's. Hardcore fascist kitsch is not cute. I'm not a consumer of TV evangelists, wrestling, big-budget violence movies, or the Weekly World News, not even to laugh at them. I hate those things. When I say I hate something, it doesn't mean I really like it.