The Age of Satire?

Three days ago was April 1st, April Fool's Day. And the jokes were paltry and few. Or maybe they weren't. I couldn't tell, because the news has been one horrible April Fool's prank after another since the FOTUS was elected. 

Let's start with the definition. I'm old school, so here's the Oxford English Dictionary:

satire, n - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

I was thinking today that perhaps NOW is the Age of Satire. We are currently living in a world where the comedians and especially satirists don't have to do any work to make an audience laugh -- they just have to let the idiot talk:

I found myself wondering in the shower this morning about what the world's historians are going to make of the 2020s, especially looking at the downfall of the USA. The historical record will be nothing but the spewing of sycophants, the outrage of the intelligent, and the raucous laughter of the satirists [Oh yes, and the public record, anything that is not purposefully redirected to apps like Signal to bypass the keeping of those public records!].

Has satire ever been this easy to write? Has the world ever been this darkly absurd? So grimly ironic (cf. the Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people)? 

I have to laugh, because otherwise all I'd do is cry.