Comedians stepping up as media falls short

It’s not easy to scare people who forge nerves of steel taking on drunken stags and bachelorette parties week after week for years on end.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is helping to press the political discourse in that country into farcical territory. Gage Skidmore photograph

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 1, 2017

It seems only fitting that Samantha Bee is staging a “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” April 29 to cull the squeamish from the herd attending the conventional Hilton event which, this year, may or may not feature President Donald Trump’s stupendous elevation from punch line to headli...

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