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The Politics of Humour

i think that the sense of humour that he clearly had makes him incredibly approachable to people who have different opinions, right? You can say, if somebodyis willing to start of take the piss out of their own party, out. of their own values, then, you that's someone you can have e beer with and reach common ground. And i think hat that sort of good humour or something that's really missing right now. I mean, it's the idea that the idea that you could not even come to a compromise, but just like come to a civil into a conversation, just seems sort of hard to wrap your mind around  a partisan era of political satire.

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