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One of the benefits of being a comedian during an election year is that you get to rise above the vicious negativity of stump speeches and news soundbites and make your own poignant remarks about the general political culture. Interestingly enough, a large number of those “comedians being serious” moments this year had nothing to do with health care reform, the oil spill or the 2010 midterm elections. The comedy community not only took its own detached, satiric tone, it selected its own discussion topics. So here are 10 Moments Comedians Made Us Think in 2010.

Not much seems to be getting done in congress these days, but at least they are getting one important thing done: "The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt."