Political humor serves the essential purpose of demonstrating that the opposition is mockable. It drags them down from their lofty towers and shows their clay feet; if you can laugh at it, it can't be terrifying. Vox had an okay take on SNL; their argument is we're currently compelled to give a shit about political comedy because our president certainly does. We're here discussing an HBO comedy show that is bargaining they'll get the President's attention by parodying diabeetus medical ads because that's all he's got the attention span for. People talk about the system of checks and balances. To my eye, we're seeing what sort of radical balance is necessary when our very democracy has been put in check. Ignorance got us here and with political humor, you need to be at least moderately informed to get the joke. Therefore, the more people laughing, the fewer people can be snowed.