Leave it to The Daily Show to put the properly absurd spin on Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee over the Mueller Report.
Host Trevor Noah had no problem pointing out how bonkers the entire thing was. When Noah compares Barr's answers to a mangled subway announcement, the joke lands not because it's silly (which it is) but because how true it rings.
Calling one exchange between Barr and Sen. Dick Durbin, "the most exciting boring fight I've seen in my life," Noah nails the dichotomy of Wednesday's drama: dry and slow and yet somehow bewildering and bonkers. After all, Barr even managed to incur the wrath of Mueller himself.
But Noah sums up the entire Mueller debate when, after a clip in which Barr refuses to hand over notes from a phone call to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, he says "America, I feel like I've discovered a fundamental flaw in your democracy: You have no defense against someone just being a dick."
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