On 8/2/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/2/06, Anthony wikilegal@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