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American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that we are living in a time where people are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians are a joke.

Among the first moves in the strongman’s playbook is to take control of the media, starting with censoring news outlets and humorists.

In the wake of Kimmel’s suspension it is hard to imagine any mass market humorist poking fun with abandon that biting satire demands.

They are relieved to learn that the stone and an oval of smaller rocks outlining a faux grave were judged in bad taste and that the attempted humorist finally removed them.

And in 1991, when her grandfather took her family to New York City for the debut of the musical “The Will Rogers Follies,” based on the humorist’s life, she “sat there on Broadway in disbelief.”