Natalie Haynes stands up for the classics series 2 episode 1 of 4
lysistrats
mike leigh
chiraq = iraq/chicago
Cleon was a demagogue
and aristophanes wrote lots of jokes about this demagogue
but the tragedy for the comedian is that this has no effect
This is the real curse of political comedy No matter how hard you try , you can’t change anything because if the phenomenon is sufficiently widespread for the joke to work its too entrenched for you to get rid of it just by making jokes
Sp after he has ripped clean apart = he writes a whole play about how awful Cleon is Cleon is still picked to be a general – Athenians vote for hardly any positions but he still gets voted in for a job
so it doesn’t always help
It makes me think of that peter cook line when he opened the establishment club and people said what it gonna be like your satirical club and he said ‘it’ll be like those satitievcal clubs in berlin in the thirties
that did such a good job to prevent the rise of hitler and the outbreak ofww2
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