When current events cannot be ignored, comedy is often the best way to deal with them.
Because if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.
New York-based “Saturday Night Live” and late night host David Letterman famously addressed the attacks on the World Trade Center in ways that helped the healing and expressed what people felt.
And while the attacks in Paris last week happened a continent away there was no ignoring them. And late night talk show hosts felt obligated to address them in remarks Monday night and over the weekend.
Stephen Colbert said he is now calling French fries Freedom fries, “in honor of the French people.”
Colbert’s show Monday opened with a stirring version of the French national anthem played by the show’s house band John Batiste and Stay Human.
“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver summed up what most people were feeling in a profanity-laced outrage.
Trevor Noah’s sincere statement on “The Daily Show” makes you wonder what Jon Stewart would have said.
Here’s what Stewart said after the attacks in January at a satirical newspaper in Paris. “Our goal is not to make sense of this because there is no sense to be made of this.”
And here’s the cold opening of “Saturday Night Live” with cast member Cecily Strong.
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