Camp introduces a new standard: artifice as an ideal, theatricality.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
The glory days of camp were made possible because the mainstream culture fed it - with fodder both ridiculous (the lows of vaudeville and burlesque; the rigid norms of an inflexible society, so ripe for travesty) and, as here, in a song by Rodgers and Hart, sublime. Wit, kids - whatever happened to it?