Hilary Kissinger attended the final taping of Jon Stewart's Daily Show and she writes of the experience. She's right when she says that Stewart and his colleagues not only did political comedy but expanded the definition and possibilities of political comedy.
While I've got you here: Lots of folks are commenting about the sudden shot of extra outrage in our political discourse in this country. People have always said stupid or offensive things but we seem to have an unprecedented wave of them…like Jeb Bush acting like everyone thinks the Iraq War was a smashing success or Mike Huckabee promising six percent economic growth when he becomes president or whatever Ted Cruz says tomorrow.
The popular explanation is that the current poll numbers for Donald Trump are dictating that trend. Maybe. But maybe it's also that the folks saying such things are no longer worried about being a target for Jon Stewart.