“In 1956, with the visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to England imminent, Malcolm Muggeridge, the then-editor of Punch, said: ‘We live in an age where it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not be enacted, promptly, before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.’”
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