“Maybe you may not be enjoyable anymore,” the reader recently wrote to me. With respect to this reader, do you enjoy it? No, please, do you have it? HM, what’s so much fun? Does anyone have a party full of nerdy gummy clusters and complete separation?
Apparently the tone around this column space is too serious and trending for some people. sorry. Really and sincerely. Trust me, it would be more “fun” to write exclusively about which kitchen spoon is the most comfortable spoon.
However, if you don’t realize it, keeping up with current affairs is like looking at raccoon cleaning trash. In fact, our ornamental structure runs like daily headlines to absurdity. This is the worst case scenario for anyone who writes humor for a living.
It is not possible to pinpoint the exact moment when the comedy was sucked in. Ah, wait, yes, I can. This end-of-mise was a continuous multi-organ failure, but satire took an official stain nap when a Georgia Republican lawmaker introduced a bill named “Red, White, Blue Land” Greenland . ‘ or found on McSweeney’s page.
Interestingly, on a basic level, normal events are exaggerated. But there’s nothing to exaggerate. Traditional Republican/DOP Wrangling is a soft arena that navigates with lightness and distance, and it’s finished. We swirled full tilt into a spaghetti bath that spills into every gap in the culture.
President Donald Trump won the election and quickly handed over control of the nation to Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world. Elon Musk has dismantled international aid like the big Lubowski under an organization named after the Shiva Dog Meme. You can’t make up for it. This week, Musk stood in his oval office and was asked about mixing Palestinian Gaza with Mozambique Gaza before uttering the words “daily declarative exams” in a reporter’s room. Protology was the territory of people like the legendary Dave Barry. It’s now a state business.
How to approach each new day with a light, creative and fun feel? Trump has signed an executive order to end the use of paper straws in America. Writing from the perspective of a small Florida turtle is just too depressing. He took over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Our own Hulk Hogan was able to take the cultural honor honestly. Democrats, on the other hand, cannot land a touching message (choose one!). And apparently, asteroids have a “minority opportunity” to hit Earth. It used to be a funny bumper sticker, but now it’s just news.
Laughter will always be patient, even through the darkest chapters of history. Humor may need to lean on the mundane to flourish in an age where facts and fiction blend into grey putty. My favorite story about onion right now is “He’s hungry so he can eat oranges.” In this spirit, I am workshopping works that embody a dishwasher (why does it always leave one cup completely dirty and dry?). Hmm, maybe it’s time to revisit the spoon.
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We still have fun around here, that’s the point. We still tell local stories and find opportunities for empathy, nuance and clever conversation. However, I don’t think that “no more fun” feelings have much to do with cartoon styling and nothing to do with comfort. There is a real urge to find comfort in maintaining the status quo – and I feel that too. Tune. All opinions to do something difficult somewhere between the trousers and the crocodile of Capri. But it’s too late for that. I don’t think I’ll end up in a history book, but we should all live with the notion that it is possible. At least until a huge rock hits the Earth.
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