USA is lucky though. It still has Bill Maher, Jon Stewart.
I have already regretted the absence of Jon Stewart like figure in Indian media. Read it here.
It was not always like this.
India once had Avadh Punch and Shripad Krishna Kolhatkar श्रीपाद कृष्ण कोल्हटकर.
In USA, Leno did not let American leaders, celebrities, sports persons, media, corporates, murderers, lawyers, judges, doctors, devices, technology, food, clothes, dogs, cats get away with their hypocrisy and pompousness. Like Maher, Leno thought America's most important battle cry was not coming from Iran or Afghanistan but from their kitchens.
I particularly liked his dislike of mobile texting and twitting.
In India, the closest we get to Leno, Maher or Stewart is Cho Ramaswamy. But Cho is 75 years old and hosts no TV program in English or Hindi. (Recently on national news, Cho was at his best explaining tongue-in-cheek why M. Karunanidhi must find a suitable role for his daughter Kanimozhi.)
These days I find 40 year old TV-genic Raj Thackeray playing Cho's role in Marathi for people of Maharashtra.
I don't agree with Thackeray's methods but on many everyday-life issues he talks a lot of sense.
Mr. Thackeray is very fond of political cartoons, particularly the art of David Low but finds no time for his passion. I hope some day Raj Thackeray will host a TV show in Marathi. It will entertain me. And who knows, may further his political career.
Cho Ramaswamy