A comedic approach to politics has proven time and again to be an effective way of capturing the Millennial audience. Just look at the overwhelming successes of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. However, the ability to make a joke out of a serious subject depends wholly on the comic’s ability to tiptoe on the line of humor and poor taste. Monday, The Upright Citizen’s Brigade posted a video to their YouTube page which crossed into the realm of the latter.
The video is titled “Gun Violence Sympathy Cards” and depicts people upset over losing someone to an act of gun violence, but feeling much better after being presented with a sympathy card that a friend had lying around … just in case.
One card reads, “I’ll be there for you … even if Congress isn’t.” Another states, “In hard times just know there’s no one else I’d rather be stuck under a desk with in the middle of a gun assault.”
Some commenters are proclaiming the video “funny, because it’s true.” But taking recent events into consideration, the video inappropriately makes light of an extremely tragic occurrence.
