Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.