His new book is Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber.īorowitz talks about the theatricality of our politics today, and how, in this time of social media, we forget the power that television wielded in molding the world. In 1998, he began contributing humor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts & Murmurs” and “Talk of the Town” departments, and in 2001, he created “The Borowitz Report,” a satirical news column, which has millions of readers around the world. He graduated from Harvard College, where he was president of The Harvard Lampoon. Menken, on up to more recent provocateurs like Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Al Franken, and our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Andy Borowitz.īorowitz is an award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author. We have a strong history of political satirists in the United States, from Mark Twain in the 19th century to such early 20th century wits as Will Rogers and H.L.
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