The Daily Show is considered primarily a comedy program finding it's provenance in That Was the Week That Was and the media parodies on SNL. However, there's undoubtedly a substantial segment of The Daily Show's audience for whom the program's satire is their primary news source. And if the satire about seemingly sacrosanct news items seems tasteless, the argument can be made that the grotesquery of what is going on in Iraq and Syria, in the Ukraine and to the Ozone layer is what's truly lacking...
The Daily Show is considered primarily a comedy program finding it's provenance in That Was the Week That Was and the media parodies on SNL. However, there's undoubtedly a substantial segment of The Daily Show's audience for whom the program's satire is their primary news source. And if the satire about seemingly sacrosanct news items seems tasteless, the argument can be made that the grotesquery of what is going on in Iraq and Syria, in the Ukraine and to the Ozone layer is what's truly lacking...
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