fodder

From the “Road to” series through buddy action movies and bromances, male friendship as comic fodder has been a constant pull, one that has increasingly favored immaturity as the catharsis.

You can see how quickly this is going to turn into fraught political fodder — a Jewish district attorney filing charges against pro-Palestinian kids.

Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.

The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.

They are actually fodder for late-night talk shows and comedy routines.