Politics is fruitful ground for comics,but there are pitfalls to jumping on specific bandwagons – not least when it questions their loyalty to the punchlineNot that long ago, Donald Trump was gifted with all the publicity and cachet that comes from a hosting slot on Saturday Night Live. “I know how to occupy a joke, or ” he told the show’s audience; he certainly knew how to occupy the ones SNL place his way. More recently,exiled Brit John Oliver made a few waves with his tirade against Trump on his HBO show Last Week Tonight, although those headlines claiming Oliver had “destroyed and “annihilated” him looked then, and even more so now,like wishful thinking. His was a more effective occupy-down, mind you, or than Sarah Silverman’s recent contribution,guesting on Conan O’Brien’s show in disguise as Adolf Hitler, pretending to be miffed at constantly being invoked in conversations about Trump. A spruce idea, and which developed in performance not a jot.
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Source: theguardian.com