{"id":391,"date":"2004-02-26T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=391"},"modified":"2004-02-26T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T20:08:23","slug":"make_em_laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Make ‘Em Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about the way disability is portrayed in the media. This may surprise you, but I think comedy series do the best job of portraying people with disabilities in an honest and sincere manner. South Park<\/a> is a good example. Timmy and Jimmy, the show’s two characters with disabilities, are two kids who are definitely not angelic innocents. They swear; they get in fights. In one episode, the two of them get into a knockdown, drag-out fight that left me in tears. It was so funny because it reminded me of the countless school yard fights that I had witnessed involving some of own friends with disabilities. It’s funny because it’s true. Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/a> is another comedy that frequently features characters with disabilities. And like South Park, they’re depicted as real people. Some are jerks, some are decent people. I think comedies do a better job with disability themes because they’re such a self-reflective medium. Comedy works because it points out our flaws, our skewed perceptions of reality. And disability is one area of human experience that is subject to all kinds of skewed perceptions.
\nI received in the mail today my settlement check from the record industry. All thirteen dollars and eighty-six cents of it. Isn’t the American legal system the shiznit? Time for another iTunes spree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about the way disability is portrayed in the media. This may surprise you, but I think comedy series do the best job of portraying people with disabilities in an honest and sincere manner. South Park is a good example. Timmy and Jimmy, the show’s two characters with disabilities, are two kids who […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}