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Jokes have been largely replaced by Internet memes. We can say with certainty that humor has changed. Top lista nadrealista in the postwar years was followed by similar humorous programs such as Nadreality show, broadcast at the public service, and Cazinski n adrealisti, broadcast on a local television station, who mocked the social situation in postwar period, but, unfortunately, they did not last long. It is sufficiently interesting that such a program was deprived of censorship, at least judging by the content, broadcast at a public service at the time of a different social order, and that in a post-war democratic society, various types of political satire such as the Polikita magazine and the cult Feral Tribune in neighboring Croatia were extinguished under the influence of politics. The popularity of this program was enormous, as evidenced by the terms that came out of the program into the language and are used in everyday speech today. This program criticized the political and social situation of that time, and many sketches, as it later turned out to be, predicted what happened in the former Yugoslavia. In the 1980s and early 1990s, and even during the war, in Bosnia and Herzegovina a program called ‘ Top lista nadrealista’ was being broadcast, which included sketches of a group of comedians, and at one point it had a format of false news. One wonders, Do we need to be happy that we are less and less retelling the jokes in which Haso and Huso, along with the world and domestic politicians? I fear that we should not be overly happy, because the absence of a political joke does not mean that we have advanced in the democratic order of our country, but that we may have become just a little less witty.īosnia and Herzegovina has always been famous for its humor, especially for good political humor. The presence of political jokes in society is inversely proportional to the level of democracy in that society.

Everything that is distorted slowly gets under our skin, and we accept it almost without resistance as an integral part of our everyday life. We were not overly surprised by this news, as if we were already accustomed to quickly accept and consider as normal everything that is truly far from it and we simply say that it does not concern us. Of course, in both cases, the prevention of hate speech or the change in the program concept were the reasons given to justify the cancellations. In Serbia, the show ‘Veče s Ivanom Ivanovićem’ (the evening program with Ivan Ivanović) was canceled due to the open criticism of authorities.

#NEWSBAR MEME TRIAL#

In neighboring Croatia, NewsBar is on trial due to its satirical texts. 1 (2019): January - Why are there less and less jokes about Huso and Haso?Īt the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, we encounter the cruel ban of satire in public discourse.

'Why are there less and less jokes about Huso and Haso?.' Spirit of Bosnia Volume 14 No.

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