Johnny Ryan interview

Mark Frauenfelder 2:57 pm Tue Feb 1, 2005

I've written about Johnny Ryan's excellent comics before. His work is juvenille, hostile, violent, and funny. I don't really know why I like it. I hate South Park, which is also juvenille, hostile, and violent. But I don't think South Park is funny. Here's an interview with Ryan on G4techTV.

Do you ever worry about how people are construing your work – that they may think you're a homophobe, or a racist, or anti-religion?

These are sort of elements that are part of us in some ways. Everybody has that fear of the other or whatever. But it sort of goes back into my whole sense of humor: making fun of people is funny. I don't have any sort of agenda against minorities, or gays, or religion. I think my comic is self-deprecating in the same way that it is insulting to everyone. I try to insult everybody, that's just my sense of humor. As far as people thinking I'm those things… I don't know, I guess it doesn't really have too much effect on me since I'm still doing it. It's all for the sake of making fun of people and humor – it's not some sort of political soapbox I'm standing on.

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