“I assure you she was a bigger star than the president. People were
gathering around our table, not the head table,” said Plepler, who was
speaking on a panel about political satire at the Cannes Lions ad
festival.

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“It’s a magnificent demonstration of agit-prop,” said Amanpour, adding
that political calls to action in America have been left to satirists.

Political discourse has become so chaotic and dysfunctional that it’s