By Mike Huckabee Host, FOX News Channel’s “Huckabee”/Former Republican Presidential CandidatePolitical humor has come to play an increasingly important role in our election process.
Shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report With Stephen Colbert” and late night comedies such as Leno, Letterman, Ferguson, Kimmel and O’Brien have more impact on framing the political discussions than the news shows do.
Don’t be afraid of that — welcome it.
Parodies of political humor can’t happen in a vacuum — they only work when they take something that is true and turn up the volume to point out its absurdity or audacity.
A political parody can’t create an issue, it can only bring attention to its inconsistencies or its ironies and make us laugh to keep from being mad about it.
The political humor that we get is not a distraction from the truth, it might be the closest thing to the real truth we actually get.
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