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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:00 AM

The end of the satirical industrial complex?

For the past eight years, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey and other comedians have had us laughing through our tears. If Obama wins, will the laughter die?
By Thomas Schaller

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  • Monday, November 3, 2008 07:20 PM

    I wish I could remember the name of that comic...

    I saw him in the U.K. He was from South Africa, and did political impressions. His act was about how we went into a depression when Mandela became president. What lifted him out of it? I paraphrase: "you will see the monkey's ass when he gets up on the flagpole."

    And he did a KILLER Margaret Thatcher.

    —expatriot Read expatriot's other letters

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