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The comedian Munya Chawawa on satire in the age of social media and what Donald Trump has in common with wrestlers

Even if you don’t know Munya Chawawa’s name, you will almost certainly have seen one of his skits. He’s the guy on your feeds who’ll take a nostalgic chart-banger and turn it into a political parody. He first blew up in the Covid pandemic, when he mocked the health secretary for his affair, the prime minister for rule-breaking, and the sheer absurdity of living through lockdown.

Since then he’s racked up more than a billion views, appeared on Celebrity Bake Off and Taskmaster and made documentaries on Kim Jong-un and Robert Mugabe, all the while putting a modern twist on the hoary tradition of political satire.

But as the news moves faster and grows darker, he tells Nosheen Iqbal how he finds jokes in the growing political chaos.

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Munya Chawawa on making jokes as the world collapses | Today in Focus

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