One of the main things late night talk show hosts do, especially in the Trump era, is criticize our disaster of a society, country, and species, occasionally with the goal of provoking change.
And yet wintery, sarcastic, Juvenalian satire is not usually one of the tools in their toolbox. Maybe the premise of late night talk shows—“viewers invite us into their homes”—precludes approaches that might alienate the audience, maybe those kinds of jokes are so open to misinterpretation that they don’t work at broadcast network scale, or maybe it’s just a matter of comedic sensibilities. But whatever the reason, this Michelle Wolf segment, which borrows the relentlessly upbeat smarm of business-speak to describe something awful and unconscionable, is difficult to imagine running on anyone else’s show:
from Stories from Slate https://ift.tt/2v09JMW
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