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Can satire cross the Atlantic?

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Does US political satire work in the UK?

John Oliver, the resident British correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Helena Lewis Hasteley, assistant editor of the New Statesman, discuss why satirists must sometimes "bite the hand that feeds them".

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