News parody programs like The Daily Show are allowed to make up shit and pretend it’s real if they think it’s funny. Sometimes they do that. Sometimes it’s even funny.

Real news shows are not allowed to do so. Key difference.

But lately, the Daily Show has hardly had to make up anything, they just let politicians and public figures speak for themselves and then cut to John Stewart gorming and saying “WTF?”

Sometimes I think the writers have had it too easy lately…