Who determines social status? It seems to be the people wanting this rule enforced and not any objective measure. To use Colbert as an example is frankly strange and telling of how arbitrary this line of thinking is, someone who earns $15m a year constantly makes fun of regular people who end up on the news or in awkward situations.

If I were to make a joke about blue-collar neo-nazis am I allowed to do that? I get the feeling most who nod along to this article would say yes and howl along in laughter, but that implies that min wage and racist ideology is of higher status than average wage and moderate ideology, which again makes absolutely no sense unless you come to the conclusion that there is no "up" and "down", just "us" and "them".

The way I see it everyone should be fair game for jokes.