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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
Description: What happens when politics becomes comedy and the jester becomes the king?Guests
Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker
Avi Steinberg, writer
Kwesi Mensah, comedian
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