Banter is good

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I am not a destroyer of reputations, I am a liberator of them!

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that banter, for lack of a better word, is good. Banter is right, it works. Banter clarifies, cuts through the bullshittery and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Banter in all its forms. Sarcasm. Parody. Ridicule. Banter for laughs, to self-aggrandise, to demean, to prick bubbles, to draw the undeserving air from fashionable ideas, has marked the upward surge of personkind, and banter – you mark my words – will not only save Wickliffe Hampton, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.

—Gordon Moron, Batshit Street