[911] America more serious? You must be joking — Christopher Hitchens on America after 911 …‘”Can we be funny?” the hosts of Saturday Night Live asked Rudy Giuliani when they nervously invited him on to the set a few nights after the immolation of the World Trade Centre. “Why start now?” was his mordant reply and, with that, frivolity resumed her reign.’
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Maybe it was Rudy and SNL that gave us permission to be funny again, but I think I’ll always credit that amazing 9/26/01 issue of the Onion as the refutation of the “irony is dead” theory. “Hijackers Surprised to Find Selves in Hell”, “Shattered Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again” — that was one for the history books.
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