Discussions for utopia.

This posting, has nothing to do with Brett Favre, or the troubles in Green Bay. It's not going to have to do with Fantasy Football, or probably anything funny. It's about this one simple point. I still think absolutely no one understands me at all.
We were getting into a discussion last night. It had to do with an activity that an FHE group had planned. Basically, it was pointing out that there can be comedy that is clean and non-offensive. You have to see how most discussions go with my friends, it usually consists of me talking about a topic or concept, usually analytically and dispassionately, then about 3 to 4 people having a differing view point and convinced that they are right and emotionally charged.
So, during this activity, they had people bring in stand up and things they termed non-offensive. This idea is good in theory. In reality, it's one of the stupidest things I've heard. It's like "cleanliness petitions". One time, in church, we had an older woman come into a meeting. She stated that she was starting a petition and wanted people to sign. The petition was to show clothing manufactures and clothing stores that there were women in the world who wanted to be modest in what they wear. I'll say it once, and I'll say it again, this is the stupidest notion I've heard. A store is going to carry what is popular and not cater to the minority. The only way that you can change things, is change the popular view of those things.
I did some amature stand up at one point in my life, so this is a topic that I hold in some regard. There are a few rules of comedy and doing stand up. That is, that a comic is the guy that is on stage and saying the things that wish we could say. This goes back to the roasting comics in the 50's and 60's. This evolved into the typical, conversational comic in the 80's and 90's doing observational humor. There is one thing that all these comics had, they pushed the envelope.
When you take an observation, and push it to the extreme, that's good comedy. It traditionally always got laughs.
Most of the conversation went towards the notion of, "Well, this is a religious activity. They were pointing out how we can watch clean comedy in this world." My whole point is that the whole concept, I have a problem with. Yes, it would be great if wishes were fishes, and that we could just will the world to be better. I wasn't able to voice it properly last night, but the overall my point is this, religion without real world application is useless.
Let me walk you down a path. In the Christian world, if we try to just will the world to a different standard, or abstain from a world where things that we don't do are easily accepted, this creates a rift between us and the person who doesn't hold the same beliefs. This creates religious piety. Most people can circumvent these social or philosophic differences by having one to two things in common. However, if we are good Christians and try to bring people to Christ, how can one teach if you have nothing in common with the target audience?
It's the same principal in comedy, the more you can relate (especially with observational humor) the better the laughs. The same can be said for missionary work. By keeping everything at a distance, this makes you different to where Everyday Joe, can't relate to you socially. In my mind, this is all counter productive. However, as it's been pointed out... "Terence just thinks differently and too abstract, so that no one will understand." Which I guess is all that needs to be said...