We're All in This Together . . . by Tom Papa

Author:Tom Papa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

LONG LIVE THE CLOWNS

There are a lot of terrible places in the world. Places that don’t have comedy, where people walk around afraid that if they say the wrong thing their lives will be in danger. These are not fun places. They are sad, serious places where it feels like winter all the time, and everyone is precancerous and eats nothing but cold soup with a beet in it.

I don’t want to live in these places or allow people to turn this country into one of those places. I don’t want to live in Russia. It’s cold and scary and you can’t find a good cheeseburger. They don’t have water parks, they have pools where they drown people for speaking out. Everything is made of concrete and no one wears sunglasses when they drive because they don’t have cars and they don’t have sun.

They just huddle in their winter coats that they wear all year round on the one bus that runs through town and everyone is missing a tooth and nobody notices because it might cause them to laugh, and no one ever laughs. They just worry about their gout and swollen ankles because they live in a land without comedy clubs, sitcoms or any other comedic way to relieve the pain.

It feels like if we aren’t careful, this is where we are headed. What began as a healthy discussion in our culture about the abuses throughout society of marginalized groups has been distorted into a way to destroy artists for their thoughts. These are not well-intentioned individuals, they are hate-filled assassins trying to purge free thought and the expression of ideas, and what is more un-American than that?

Even worse, the fake outrage has given the hateful a place to gin up more hate. By recognizing that the thought police have gone too far and is out of step with rational people, they have hijacked the debate and have found a clever way to go back to the old days of attacking the weak.

There shouldn’t be a single article written about the division in America that doesn’t mention the lack of television comedies that for decades united us. Look what has become of network television. The networks and advertisers, by kowtowing to the vocal minority of small, pesky letter writers who now have a digital platform, are killing the joy for the much greater majority.

I thank God we grew up in an era of common sense and had the chance to watch The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Welcome Back, Kotter, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Friends, Sanford and Son and decades more of our most cherished comedies. Comedies that reflected who we were, warts and all, and that everyone says couldn’t be made today. Can you imagine that? The great American art form, flattened and destroyed by political correctness. That is sick, intolerable and dangerous. At the very least, it’s no fun.

Kids today will grow up and be forced to try to conjure up joyful memories and reminisce about The Bachelor and The Real Housewives.

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