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Australian Books

Leaving Mangoland

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

When Donald Trump was elected President in 2016, irascible US comedian Lewis Black declared angrily that, thanks to that event, he was now out of a job. What he meant was that the ascendancy of a blustering real estate mogul and television personality to the presidency was so inherently ludicrous that it required no further comment by comedians.

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