On 8/2/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/2/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Colbert's entire show is based on
tongue-in-cheek parody. In fact,
you could say the whole thing is intelligent "trolling". It's usually
fairly funny, as the Wikipedia segment probably was.
That's the first time I ever heard intelligent satire referred to as
intelligent trolling. Jonathan Swift is turning over in his grave
somewhere :P
The only real difference between satire and trolling is whether or not
you get the joke! Of course the word "trolling" has basically become
meaningless at this point. People use the term for basically anything
and everything.
Anthony