When the New Yorker dedicated one of its July covers to a cartoon depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as violent, radical terrorist sympathisers -- a decision earnestly described as "satire" -- the reaction was near-universal disgust.
But if anyone knows how to turn disgust into a good laugh, it's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the dynamic duo who host back-to-back political comedy shows on US cable television. They recreate the now-iconic New Yorker pose for the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine, which bears the headline "This Crazy Election".
Click the link above to take a look -- and just try not to laugh at Colbert's saucy wink.
