For some reason the man who created "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" is now America's foremost political satirist. Except he's not actually a satirist, he's a parodist. As a parodist he falls very short of the standard set by, say, (true American treasure) Weird Al. His milieu is "fake news," which is a very crowded field. But Borowitz is a one-man fake news machine, producing with soothing predictability an endless stream of topical jokes and sentences that resemble jokes, for Twitter ("Romney: 'It's time to transform America, and Paul Ryan and I are both Transformers.'" I think the joke there is that Romney and Ryan are robotic. Or maybe that they're evil?) and his new home at the New Yorker.

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