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POLITICAL HUMOR HAS LONG AND STORIED HISTORY

February 21, 2017 by Blog Posts

BY JESSICA BLOUSTEIN writing for Newsweek

As long as there have been people in power, there have been wiseacres mocking the people in power. Those Paleolithic French cave paintings of horses? It’s a safe bet that at least one of them is an old-school political cartoon meaning “Tribal leader Gary is a jackass.”

Greek playwright Aristophanes’ satirical comedies were filled with jabs at influential citizen leaders of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. While in exile, Dante Alighieri wrote his “Divine Comedy,” in which he placed prominent political figures directly in hell. Even Shakespeare is thought to have ridiculed Elizabethan politics in some of his plays, notably “Richard II.” More recently, Mark Twain and Will Rogers stood out as eminent political satirists of their respective times. (“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress,” Twain famously wrote. “But I repeat myself.”)

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