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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grimhelm" data-source="post: 4501833" data-attributes="member: 37079">Of course!  Men of intelligence are very often men of cutting wit and humor.  It is precisely because they are intelligent that they can see the funny side of many issues.  Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain... The list goes on and on.  The greatest satirists were men of keen intelligence.  How can we possibly expect someone who is stupid to write satire?  By its very nature satire requires keen insight into the problems of society.  Dunces make fart jokes while true satirists jab needles in to the very fabric of society, rendering that fabric impotent to delude us.  Satirists tear down the things we hold dear and say, "Look, isn't this a little silly?  If you look at it just so, you will see that we take ourselves way too seriously..."</blockquote>