The Daily Show in the United States, hosted by Jon Stewart, is must-see fare for anyone vaguely interested in politics and for those who, according to the show's blurb, "can't bear to sit through the spinmeisters" responsible for newscasts.
Nothing is off-limits or out of bounds. It's funny and confronts some truths of race and class sensitivities, sometimes insensitively.
One of the mildly funny lines recently related to the US elections must have been, "Obama is only one letter away from Osama. Is this a chance we are prepared to take?"
Mildly funny, but it confronts a few of America's prejudices cleverly. The degree to which societies can laugh at themselves is a measure of collective …
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