GOD BLESS AMERICA SPECIAL
With all their blatant warmongery and corruption, it just seems too easy to Yankbash at the moment. But whether we like it or not, our cultural lives, from music to art and film to food, are rife with good stuff from over the pond. So on the eve of the presidential elections, we dedicate this issue to embracing all that’s * great about the United States. Brian
Donaldson and Mark Robertson kick it
all off with the A—Z OF AMERICAN
TV COMEDY. D is not for Dubya.
Mirth of a nation
Ay carumba!
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Beavis and Butt-head
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