The creator of W1A has a new thing coming out.
Hugh Bonneville moves to Miami as Fifa’s director of integrity, chairing a strategic operations group, “or Sog”.
At what point does satire become redundant?
Pull this thread and very quickly you get to Philip Roth country:
“You can’t write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.”
He said this in the Nixon era.
On Satirizing Presidents
An interview with Philip Roth
Alan Lelchuk
Roth defined satire as "moral outrage transformed into comic art" and "a verbal ritualization of frustration and anger".
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History is really good on the paradox of satire, which includes a version of confirmation bias, when viewers interpret satire in a way that aligns with their pre-existing beliefs.
A famous example is The Colbert Report, a right wing parody beloved by conservatives.