When members of the Second City first met with staffers of the online magazine Slate last fall to plan a collaborative political revue, they never imagined that the 2016 presidential election would transpire in the way it has so far. “There was pretty much unanimous belief by us and by the Slate staff that Trump would fall away as a nominee,” Second City director Matt Hovde says. “But as he built momentum and became the nominee, the comedian side of us was like, ‘Oh wow, this just made this show a lot more fun.’ ”
An election as bat-shit crazy as this year’s race to the White House seems ripe for comedic interpretation, but Unelectable You‘s creators say it’s been a challenge to turn the insanity into satire. “It’s hard to heighten what is already a cartoonish version of politics,” Hovde says.
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