Back in 1975, a more rebellious Lorne Michaels and the like-minded Boomers who were creating "Saturday Night Live" had to be aware of George S. Kaufman's famous quip as they were preparing for what they were hoping as their new home for satire on television--49 years later, Kaufman may be the winner--in an interview with Chicago Tribune film critic MIchael Phillips, Anne Libera of The Second City says that satire is not working right now because it requires pain and "psychic or temporal distance," and we may have the pain right now, but we sure as hell don't have the distance:
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