Al Gore introduced (or re-introduced) this idea of the court jester as teller of unpopular truths in an interview he did on The Daily Show last year, so it's interesting to see the OUP blog pick it up, without attribution, when discussing The Daily Show itself. I like tracing the origins of these bits of conventional wisdom that often turn out to be only half-true at best. Let me do some digging and see what the scholars say.
Al Gore introduced (or re-introduced) this idea of the court jester as teller of unpopular truths in an interview he did on The Daily Show last year, so it's interesting to see the OUP blog pick it up, without attribution, when discussing The Daily Show itself. I like tracing the origins of these bits of conventional wisdom that often turn out to be only half-true at best. Let me do some digging and see what the scholars say.
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