Publication Date: 2018-01-21
New Yorker staff writer Adrian Chen discusses his latest piece titled, “The Comedy Caucus.” He traces the development of the first season of The Other News, Nigeria’s first prime-time political-satire show. Chen reports from a tiny studio in Lagos with patchy Internet and no running water, where a team of collaborators, including five Nigerian writers, a Nigerian host, an American former Daily Show writer and an American producer, continue the long-standing democratic tradition of satire as a “weapon of wit.”  
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