JC uses snark as the very medium of his content, Pip

Sample JC: As for there being a school of anonymous 'master' composers; early texts of many of the songs and ballads show no signs of mastery whatsoever. Collections such as Percy's Reliques, The Bagford Ballads, publications of The Ballad Society, even Child; and later collections like The Universal Songster, are crammed full of songs which, when they were first written, were verbose, overlong, clumsy - in fact unsingable. It was only when they were taken up by the 'folk' and subjected to the oral tradition that they earned the description of 'masterful' - as Macoll put it "like stones shaped by the motion of the sea".

Evelyn K Well's 'The Ballad Tree' has an interesting chapter on 'Ballad Imitations' - it's worth comparing the texts she gives with the real thing.

I mean, I'm sorry he doesn't like your singing, but you've got to admit there's a bit of a difference between that and one of glueman's characteristic hit-and-run one-liners. (But now I'm talking to someone who's not here about someone else who's not here. Enough! or too much.)