Satire is the lowest form of comedy

Any idiot can make ironic comparisons, extended metaphors, and humorous allegories. It takes real intelligence to do observational comedy.

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Wrong. You cannot separate the two words in that example. I'm not referring to all phenomena with a cultural facet to it, I'm talking about cultural phenomena as a single all-encompassing umbrella. Do you start calling a single umbrella by its plural term just because more than one person is standing under it? Or do you say "the people (plural) are standing under the umbrella (singular).