The Limits of the Late-Night Comedy Takedown

I thought this was an excellent article. I gave it a new thread because the principal character in the article is John Oliver and his most recent related thread is a year old.

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Meanwhile, the hosts of these shows seem more than aware of their limitations. “My years of evisceration have embettered nothing,” the former Daily Show host Jon Stewart laments at the end in a clip highlighting that virtually every problem The Daily Show covered in his 16 years as host remains just as bad—if not worse—than ever before.