Snark is written by people who don’t have an ear for genuine wit. Comedy is hard work. Comics are cultural heroes, rightly so, and everyone wants to be like them, but most of us don’t have the discipline, the timing, or the phrasing. Comedy takes a great ear. Now that I’ve gotten this off my chest, I’m giving up the snark hunt. Social pressure is the only thing that will change it. If people tell the snarker that what he’s writing isn’t cool, that’s a beginning, but the trends, despite Obama’s calls for civility, are all leading toward more of it, not less.

Schönes Interview mit David Denby über die Rhetorik des snark, Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie und Verdrängungsgeschubse.

Quelle: The Book Bench (New Yorker), 19.2. 2009 > The Exchange: David Denby