8 Minutes on Political Satire with Alexandra Petri

No one knows the landscape of political satire better than Alexandra Petri, the mind behind the Washington Post’s ComPost blog. Molly Boigon sat down with Petri at the Shorenstein Center after her November 7th talk on satire in the age of Trump.

What followed was a discussion that bounced from Abraham Lincoln’s fart jokes to comedy’s relationship with conservative voters to the future of journalism. Petri and others like her are sources of laughter and guides through the political sphere. Hop on Paul Manafort’s $900,000 magic carpet, click the video player above and buckle in.

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