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Is satire dead? Armando Iannucci and others on why there are so few laughs these days

by Zoe Williams

It's hard to poke fun at politicians in an era when they're held in contempt and every joke is policed for offence, say top television writersIt has become a commonplace to remark on the hyper-sensitivity of the culture; a person saying a vile thing can never be debated, but only no-platformed. A person who once debated another person who went on to say a vile thing thereby shared a platform. Often it's hard to estab…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:12am on October 19, 2016