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LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character__he news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media__on made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that__ not condescending, it__ not smug. It__ funny, it__ emotional, it__ calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.
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LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character__he news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media__on made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that__ not condescending, it__ not smug. It__ funny, it__ emotional, it__ calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.
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