Somebody 'splain this WTF "Brevity" cartoon to me, s'il vous plait
I "get" the identities of the four dudes and that they are all named "Ted." (I'm irritated that NUGENT has his arn around around TR.) What I don't get is the overall concept. The jarring effect leaves no humor for me. & when NUGENT gets a more visceral reaction than the Unabomber... Thanks in advance.
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Instead if a TED talk.
Edit. It's more of a spoof on the audience I think. Guns and violence is much easier to understand for this particular audience. They are not NPR types. 
Your take that the audience is being spoofed is IT: Instead of Al GORE and Bill GATES being the speakers, this audience likes this group better. And TR = Environment (On Edit, whups, the "E" is for "Entertainment" not "Environment"
; Unabomber = (anti-?)Technology; and NUGENT/DANSON = Entertainment.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)
[font size=5]TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)[/font]
is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event.[1] The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California.[4] TED's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its origins in the Silicon Valley.
The TED main conference is held annually in Long Beach, and its companion TEDActive is held in Palm Springs. Both conferences will move from Long Beach and Palm Springs to Vancouver and Whistler, respectively, in 2014.[5] TED events are also held throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.[6] The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[7] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.
Since June 2006,[1] the talks have been offered for free viewing online, under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license, through TED.com.[8] As of May 2013, over 1,500 talks are available free online.[9] By January 2009 they had been viewed 50 million times. In June 2011, the viewing figure stood at more than 500 million,[10] and on Tuesday November 13, 2012, TED Talks had been watched one billion times worldwide, reflecting a still growing global audience.[11 ....
History[edit]
TED was conceived by architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment and design. The first conference, organized by Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984, featured demos of the Sony compact disc, and one of the first demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer.[1][13] Presentations were given by famous mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and influential members of the digerati community, like Nicholas Negroponte and Stewart Brand. The event was financially unsuccessful, however, and it took six years before the second conference was organized.[14] From 1990 onward, a growing community of "TEDsters" gathered annually at the event in Monterey, California, until 2009, when it was relocated to Long Beach, California due to a substantial increase in attendees.[15]
Initially, the speakers came from the fields of expertise behind the acronym TED, but during the nineties, the roster of presenters broadened to include scientists, philosophers, musicians, religious leaders, philanthropists and many others.[14] ....
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