Covering the shutdown may have diminishing returns for journalists, but for comedians it has provided seemingly endless grist. (With varying success: my colleague Isaac Chotiner wrote a post last week on Jay Leno’s very bad shutdown jokes.)
The counterpoint to Leno’s goony “who needs the government anyway” shtick is, unsurprisingly, Jon Stewart, who has proved himself to be the king of shutdown humor
In the year or so before he left for a sabbatical to direct a film about an imprisoned Iranian journalist, he had gotten less fun to watch, his smugness ballooning daily. And then John Oliver did such a stellar job in The Daily Show hosting chair that it was tempting to lament Stewart’s return Read more…
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