Bassem Youssef (Credit: Getty/Khaled Desouki) One question constantly hounds political comedians: Is satire an effective political weapon? Critics love to point out that satire didn’t bring down Hitler, and Jon Stewart couldn’t even save us from George W. Bush. It’s an endlessly annoying query for those of us who work on satire, not simply because offering examples of the material effects of satire can be tricky, but mostly because it is the wrong question to be asking in the first place. The issue of the politically material effects of satire assumes that the goal of the satirist is to bring down a tyrant or install a new regime.
Lessons From “the Egyptian Jon Stewart”: “the Satirist’s Role Ends At The Screen”
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Sat, 03/18/2017 - 7:00am
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