Strange Bedfellows : : How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke / / Russell Peterson.
It is no coincidence that presidential candidates have been making it a point to add the late-night comedy circuit to the campaign trail in recent years. In 2004, when John Kerry decided it was time to do his first national television interview, he did not choose CBS's 60 Minutes, ABC's Ni...
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