The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Can we laugh? Yes, we can
What Jon Stewart once called "the satirical-industrial complex" is undergoing a shake-up right now.

Out with the jokes about George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. In with jokes about Barack Obama.

But what are the jokes about Barack Obama? How does a comedian satirize a politician whose stock-in-trade is optimism, idealism and - dare we say it? - hope?

That's the question I pose in today's Culture Vulture column in the dead-tree Tribune. Check it out.

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