How does the push for more diversity in late-night comedy square with a declining viewership?
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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…