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...equal-opportunity lampoonist, Stamaty, 46, joyfully skewers both ends of the political spectrum and all points in between. His best-known character, Bob Forehead, is an earnest, airheaded Congressman who resembles John F. Kennedy, spouts conservative shibboleths and has seldom had a thought that didn't come straight from his political handlers...
...subversion the legitimate province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That...
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