The Fine Line Between Satire and You’re an Idiot

Humor is the world’s way of taking a few steps back to address an issue from another point of view. We see it a lot in movies nowadays.

Films likeScary Movie take the sting out of horror movies that actually, truly scared some people, and gave them a way to laugh at how silly it all is in the end. How many people were terrified to answer their phone after watching The Ring? I can name five people off the top of my head–because I dragged them to a theater six days after I’d seen the movie the f...