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Stewart/Colbert recreate New Yorker cover
Back in July, when the New Yorker published Barry Blitt’s notorious cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama — an illo that played up every negative stereotype whispered to date — lots of people (including the Obama campaign) thought that average Americans wouldn’t get the joke. Even alluding to stereotypes, they argued, reinforced them.
Entertainment Weekly wants to know if its readers are smart enough to figure this kind of subtle stuff out for themselves, so they used a spoof of the New Yorker cover to promote the inside interview with our main sources of news and information — Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.
In the article, Colbert and Stewart talk about how absurd spectacle has hijacked the election coverage (not recognizing, perhaps, that they’re a major part of the problem). EW is also hosting an online message board for folks to weigh in on the value of parody in such incredibly scary, scary times.
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