CHINA TOPIX

'The Daily Show' on China's Wordplay Ban

Staff Reporter   |

Dec 08, 2014 07:02 AM EST

It didn't take long for Jon Stewart and his news team of merry jokers to dig their claws into the State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television after it announced that the use of puns and wordplay should be prohibited from broadcasts and ads in China, or that the country could otherwise face "cultural and linguistic chaos".