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“Sometimes we would just punch it and it would work,” says director Yorgos Lanthimos, who relied on more obedient cameras for past films including his Oscar-nominated “Poor Things” and “The Favourite.”

"Society prefers to hire child domestic labour because they are cheap and more obedient, and employers make the argument that they are also safeguarding them, which is not true and illegal," he told AFP.

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Jon Stewart ended Thursday by hosting a special “government-approved” edition of “The Daily Show,” identifying himself as its “patriotically obedient host.”

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Stewart leaned heavy into irony from the start of the show, saying it is now the “all new, government-approved” version, and was introduced as the evening’s “patriotically obedient host.”

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"I have been obedient all my life, but it was too much," Sister Bernadette said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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