Obama's Anger Translator Takes a Final Bow
<em>The Daily Show</em> resurrected Luther, the character who promises to tell Americans what the president is really thinking—but gave the president himself the last word.
There’s perhaps been no better satire of the Obama presidency than the figure of , Obama’s anger translator. ’s serialized sketch, in which the title character says all the things Obama won’t and can’t say as president, was multifaceted in its insights: about the performative demands of the office, about Obama’s own cool demeanor, about the collision of all those things’s Luther sketches—including, and perhaps especially, the one performed with the actual President Obama, at —were, in all that, as profound as they were wacky, and as much about the country Obama governed as they were about the president himself.
