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Still considered iconic for their live performances from Studio 8H in New York, the original cast set the tone for years to follow with their irreverent, edgy humor. They combined anti-establishment political satire with rock-and-roll attitude for a show that spoke to the youth of the 1970s.

Highlights from episodes of the British TV comedy series.

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...

In the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! It's high time America was restored to the greatness it never lost! Stephen Colbert single-bookedly attempts to pull the country back from the brink. Covering subjects ranging from healthcare to the economy to food, Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.

"Russell Hokes is a man with a mission. If he ever hopes to be paid on his book contract, he's got 50,000 words to deliver. The subject: the dying small towns of America. In his desperate search for a small town dying in America, Hokes stumbles upon a quarter-mile stretch of concrete and gravel dotted with strip clubs and used auto parts shops." "Welcome to Wigfield. Population: vague. Upon his arrival, Russell Hokes wanders the streets of Wigfield...

"... provide[s] a front-row seat to the entertaining and often absurd theater of America's partisan politics, while telling the story of Franken's transformation from irreverent gadfly of the American right to still irreverent potential Senate candidate"--Container.

Junkyard operator Juan Vargas is named Temporary Municipal President after the mayor is lynched, and the power goes to his head.

Carol Kennicott is a young, idealistic woman from the city who moves to the little burg of Gopher Prairie after she marries Will, a simple country doctor. A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.

The animals of the farmyard rebel against Farmer Jones in the name of equality.

A compilation of three short films about the current state of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in the United States. Fox vs. Franken: when comedian Al Franken used Fox News' phrase "Fair and balanced" in his satiric book, the network sued. Fox lost in court and Franken earned national notoriety with a bestseller. Poetic license: explores the implications of state-sponsored art through the story of New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka and...