Published 9/27/2008
at L.A. Times - Politics
The Comedy Central stars skewer the New Yorker's controversial cover illustration, and weigh in on the election too.
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This weekend a variation on the controversial New Yorker cover drawing that caricatured Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, has shown up on newsstands and in subscribers' mailboxes. Getting into the act is Entertainment Weekly, and assuming the roles of the Obamas are Comedy Central stalwarts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (barely recognizable sans glasses and in an Afro wig).
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