Tim Heidecker with Adam Curtis
Talkhouse Podcast
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The Future of Satisfaction
S satire has had the opposite effect of what people who were laughing thought it might have. And that actually helped Donald Trump get elected, he says. I began to feel it was like children sniggering at their parents and their parents' friends downstairs having a slightly awkward cocktail party. He drills into the heart of what we're all feeling when we're looking at Donald Trump's inauguration. It's very funny but frightening too. That to me is the future of satire. To open up an emotional history of our time.
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