Sorstoese bstrasted the prime minister with the way that trump his portrayed a a single character. He said: 'If there are no rules, you know, if donald is literally saying, i can shoot a guy in the face at fifth avenue and i'd still get elected then we still need to call that out' We did a sert of film, tight parody. But i think America's interesting, because there's so much more satire in america.
Though no laughing matter, the extremes of the Donald Trump presidency made comedians' jobs a little trickier: was the reality more absurd than satire created around it? In 2020 we invited celebrated comedy writer and producer Armando Iannucci, Labour MP Jess Phillips, and satirist and impressionist Jan Ravens, to discuss the issue. The event was chaired by journalist Samira Ahmed.
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