Thought for the Day
Peter Cook was once asked if he thought that satire had a political effect. He said, “Absolutely. The greatest satire of the twentieth century was the Weimar cabaret, and they stopped Hitler in his tracks.”
– Stephen Colbert, in a Rolling Stone interview
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Mark Grimsley. Posted on
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