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With considerable self-satisfaction, the comics talk about how comedy “tells truth to power”.
But what about comedy that serves to tell lies to the people, in the service of power?
For example, how many jokes did Stephen Colbert tell about “Russia collusion”? Hundreds, probably. I’m guessing that at least a few were even funny! But they were all in the service of a lie.