Americans fired up by a fascinating presentation of primary colours

I WAS lucky enough to find myself in a comedy cellar in Greenwich Village in New York last week, listening to five different comedians satirising modern American life, and in particular the current presidential election campaign.

The election has provided no shortage of material for comedians, though they were keener to satirise Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama.

One comedian compared her to a jilted lover who cannot accept her relationship with the presidential electorate is over (he will have to change his routine after Tuesday’s results in Ohio and Texas). In any case, he continued, she should be relieved that she will not have to work at the desk which propped up her husband while white trash women fulfilled his fantasises.