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This week witnessed a meeting of the minds the likes of which the world has never seen.
Fault can be placed on either side: one man is a buffoon, the other a total monster.
And though their interaction was brief, the ramifications of it will most likely be felt for decades.
I am, of course, talking about the confrontation between David and Jordan onThe Bachelorette.
But more late-night hosts are comparing Trump to the long-standing reality franchise.
Colbert imagined Trump helming a show calledThe Pardonerlast week after his flurry of pardons.
And Fallon restyled the summit in Singapore to be a little rosier.
Each cultural moment is interchangeable, leading to potentially infinite combinations of the same rough materials.
Certain topics will be more Zeitgeisty, however, and thus get used more often.
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In Lego comedy, jokes arent written, theyre built.
These naked references will get a laugh of recognition yes, they did happen, I remember that!
The joke in many of these sketches is in putting the bricks together.
Robert Mueller +Meet the Parentslie-detector scene = Cold Open.
This is almost always a bad take, but what if social media is to blame?
We connect the disparate data with bits of red string.
It all fits togethersomehow, we just know it!
Look, Im not a monster.
Juxtaposition is a necessary comedic tool.
Jokes play on our expectations, and we dont expect geopolitics to be like a reality dating show.
But when a reality-TV star gets elected president, anything (terrible) is possible.
The issue with Lego comedy isnt the practice, its the lack of rigor.
What are we saying when we put two things together?
Meaning does spring forth, even if the joke is built almost without intention.
WhenDesus & MerocomparedThe Bacheloretteto a Trina video, it was to point out the laziness of Beccas revenge-fantasy date.
When Trump is compared toThe Bachelorette, arent we kind of making a gay joke?
TheBachelor/Bachelorettefranchise is a femme-coded soap-opera world.
This isnt how a president should act, these jokes imply, its too girly.
But if more people were comfortable with a girly president, maybe geopolitics would be less ridiculous right now.
