Opinion

Just when we need political satire more than ever, Jon Stewart bows out

Hadley Freeman

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the news, dance-free, looks sweetly old-fashioned – and yet his is the
one that has had, and will continue to have, the greatest impact on
political satire – because he genuinely cares about what he is saying.

This, I’ve finally realised, is why The Daily Show still works while
other similarly rigid but far lazier and more cowardly shows just look
like the walking dead. It is, for example, an indictment of the state
of TV political satire in Britain that no UK broadcaster has managed to
come up with anything even a hundredth as good as The Daily Show,
despite repeated attempts. Where America has The Daily Show, Britain