Monday, 5 March 2012

AMERICA (THE BOOK); Jon Stewart skewers history in this hilarious "textbook"

If you've never watched Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it is funny. Sometimes it's scathingly funny (conservative columnist Robert Novak is often referred to as the "douchebag of liberty"). Sometimes it's sophomorically funny (during the presidential debates, "political analyst" Ed Helms kept asking other media people when Aerosmith was going to start). But regardless of its target, the show is almost always smartly funny. Now, the team of Daily Show writers has come out with a book as scathing and sophomoric as the show, and it is hilarious.

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction is made to look like a high school textbook and, as such, is a …

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