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Reuters tells us:
As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.
In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.
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Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @04:03PM
> After all you aren't fighting people in politics, you're fighting ideas, and ideas tend to be hard to kill.
If we had a comedy-industrial complex we would be flooding the internet with jokes about ISIS and al qaeda. So much cheaper, so much less opportunity for blowback (never have to worry about jokes of mass deconstruction falling into the wrong hands). But we don't so investing the money in people who understand the society and make cultural relevant jokes is just more than we can afford.