I’m trying to think of important political jokes/satires that both worked, and were timed just right enough to influence the situations they were about.
Only clear example I can think of was John Edwards “I feel pretty” video in 2007, which I think tanked him.
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Remember in like 2015 when Obama roasted Trump at that White House correspondents thing?
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I think that was 2011, and Trump was actually in the room. He had been considering a run in 2012 and making hay with the birther stuff around that time. Some have pointed to that WHCD as "the moment". (aside: The raid to kill bin Laden happened only hours later)
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That’s an example of jokes backfiring and bringing about the very thing they were contemptuous of though, so failed humor in retrospect
Adam Curtis used Seth Meyers' routine from that event and Trump's reaction prominently towards the end of HyperNormalization
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