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Tag: The Daily Show
What are Lawyers Doing Today at Late Night Shows and Why?
What are lawyers doing behind the scenes at today’s Late Shows and why?
The Brave New World of Muckraking Comedy
Is muckraking comedy a good thing?
Spy Magazine and Today’s Brutal Political Satire: An Origin Story?
A remarkable feature of today’s political satire is what appears to be its “snark and insult” character. By most accounts, it wasn’t always this rough and mean. Perhaps the most persuasive theory on how we started down this brutal path is that the now defunct Spy magazine from the 1980s and 1990s put us on…
The New Frontier: What if a Comedian is also a Judge?
Comedy can be pretty fascinating stuff, and it is especially so nowadays that comedy is such a big influence on the pop culture. Yet, it can also be pretty controversial. At the time of this writing the New Jersey Supreme Court was set to rule on whether a guy who serves as a judge can…