For centuries, scholars struggled to find something similar to Greek comedy. Luckily for us, Matt Stone and Trey Parker createdSouth Park. Despite nearly 3,000 years separating the two, South Park is almost identical to Greek comedy. At the heart of both is the lampoon. To lampoon means to criticize using ridicule or sarcasm. We actually get the word lampoon from the statesman Lampon, who was viciously ridiculed in several plays by the Athenian comedian Aristophanes. Like South Park, Greek comedians they also targeted ideas. We see the same pattern unfold in Aristophanes' The Birdsand South Park's 'Margaritaville'. In short, Greek comedy displayed the same irreverence, the same scathing criticism, the same subtle moralizing.
All this comedy might not sound very religious, but passing moral judgment on ideas and people is essentially a religious matter.
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