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He played the game like a child, or like someone who was bent on lampooning a sacred ritual, which amounted to the same thing.

Chenoweth, who is as gleaming as a holiday ornament on Liberace’s Christmas tree, arrives at a canny balance of quixotic generosity and parvenu carelessness in her portrayal of a woman she refuses to lampoon.

The premiere will be closely watched in a changed TV landscape where the stakes in satirizing the president seem higher than ever, even for an institution that’s been lampooning leaders for half a century.

The Spitting Image TV show, which lampooned celebrities, politicians and royals, was a huge hit for ITV when it first ran in the 1980s and 1990s.

The weekly Russian satire known as “Kukly” — or “Puppets,” in English — lampooned Russian leaders by rendering them as giant latex caricatures.