‘McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’ Takes on the Bathroom Reading Format
The beloved McSweeney's is stripped of its Internet cloak and laid before us on the bare, naked pages of print.
Plotting exposure, parody seeks to unveil rather than to mask, to offer truths where it finds lies, deceit, or hypocrisy. So why has religion proven particularly prone to this means of comedic put-down?
Banksy’s “hits” over the last decade reveal an artist using bare wit in bearing witness to the inequities, injustices, and exploitations of the modern world.