The Onion co-founder recommends 5 satires that roasted the world (for the better)

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In 1599, John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Richard Bancroft, the Bishop of London, issued an edict that became the “ most sweeping and stringent ” instance of censorship in the early modern period. Now known as the “ Bishops’ Ban ,” it came with a list of books that should “be taken wheresoever they maye be found” and “bee presentlye brought to the Bishop of London to be brunte.”…

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