• @fpslem
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    3011 months ago

    Puppets have been used in comedy and cultural commentary since Punch & Judy and before. Dickens would have dug it.

    • @[email protected]
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      2411 months ago

      I meant more the context of the individual characters. Like, having Statler and Waldorf as Marley is funnier if you know who those two are

      • TheMongoose
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        211 months ago

        Also he’d need to know who Bob Marley was in order get the Jacob and Robert gag…

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      411 months ago

      Punch and Judy appear in the background of at least one of the opening scenes of The Muppet Christmas Carol