Steve Carell is a political strategist lost in backwoods America in the former Daily Show host’s Capra-esque second film“I don’t kid,” Donald Trump said last week, when asked if he was (as White House aides had claimed) “joking” about telling his Coronavirus team to “slow the testing down”.
By the time you read this, he may well be claiming that he never said any of the words captured on camera.
Who knows? Even those rolling news networks sympathetic to the president’s chicanery are struggling to keep up with the tsunami of untruths, falsehoods, and barefaced lies that now pass for policy in the Us.
As for political satire, it’s largely indistinguishable from the insanity of an administration flailing chaotically through economic, racial and medical turmoil.Amid such horrors, there’s something reassuringly nostalgic about Irresistible, the second feature from former Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
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