You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.
Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.