i just think it was a sort of, like a seminal moment. And and politicians having the pist taken out of them as opposed to being kind of revered. It's one of those weird words, satire, because itit can mean so many different things. But also, britons had this tradition, going right back to jonathan swift and addison and steele in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. That's how i grew up thinking what satire was,. thit was asof literay tradition to it. I was a great fan of charles dickens, and he's a satirist, really, you know, it his his.
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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