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The election of Donald Trump has been a boon to political satirists.\xa0 Saturday Night Live is enjoying its highest ratings in 20 years, andThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert is now the most successful late night program on TV.\xa0 Joanne, Ed and Brian look at the long history of political satire in America - how Mark Twain became the country\u2019s most famous satirist by mostly sticking to safe subjects, a look at the 1987 Supreme Court case that made political satire protected speech, and talk to the star and director of \u201cAsk a Slave\u201d, the satirical web series.
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