The end of satire | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sean Gandert [Culturally Determined]

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Channel: Nonzero · 2017 · News & Politics

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39:50 Surveying modern political satire
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Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Sean Gandert (Lost in Arcadia, @SeanGandert)

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Recorded on August 1, 2017

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