Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

People, people, people. The guy built his brand on intelligent, political and race-observational humor. Dude speaks six languages (see clip below where he talks about his Hitler-like German). He threw out a few crass jokes on twitter years ago.

Which is why I said "Leaving aside the whole tweet-thing" before musing about how the culture and background he's from might affect how he plays here (the US generally, but more importantly the Daily Show, which has been a show focused on US politics).

Note, also, that I said the effect might be negative (things considered funny there might not be funny here) or positive (different perspective, tone, etc -- or maybe that things considered funny there are fucking hilarious here).

He is successful in South Africa for the exact same reasons he has become successful here.

With Kamau Bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMzYGtWS3s
Here he is in 2009 (I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyuIKzpYJQ
2014 in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF7Nxoy-1tI

eta: I just found this NYT piece on him as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/ar...=1419773522000
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So.... his culture and background may have influenced his comedy, in a way that may or may not translate well to the Daily Show? Huh, who would have guessed?