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If you’re in the Florida area & want to see some a live Bolivian sketch comedy show (think Saturday Night Live), check out the Chaplin Show in Miami (Saturday, October 4) & Naples (Sunday October 5). You can also check out their official website, though it has no video clips.

I just took up the FP Passport challenge & wrote in Stephen Colbert for its list of the top 20 “Public Intellectuals.” My other votes were for: Fareed Zakaria, Ian Buruma, Amartya Sen, Vaclav Havel, and Robert Kagan.

PS: Kagan has a new book coming out any week now; there’s a preview essay (“The End of the End of History”) in the last New Republic.

There’s a big brouhaha over Chavez’s recent statement that he chews coca.

I’m extremely interested to see if Stephen Colbert does, in fact, end up on the South Carolina primary ballot—and what effect that has on the presidential race. A stunt? Perhaps. But then, so are the “candidacies” of the likes of Mike Gravel, Tomas Tancredo, Sam Brownback, Dennis Kucinich, and at least a few others in the over-crowded primary fields.

Reason’s Jesse Walker provides some interesting advice on how to win the Nobel Peace Prize along w/ a roundup of past winners.

That said: Congratulations to Al Gore. The environment sure needs someone to save it, regardless of why or how.

If you haven’t already heard, Jon Stewart announced that Evo Morales will be on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show tonight (11pm EST). This is quite a coup for the show, which is fast becoming more of a “serious” news show than mainstream news (but does anyone think CNN, FOX, etc. are “serious” news networks anymore?). Needless to say, I’ll be tuning in.

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PS. Both The Daily Show & The Colbert Report have recently become the subject of a number of political science conference papers & journal articles.