And the funny thing is that these authoritarian rulers tend to be such idiots that they make it very hard not to joke about them.
Humorist, Laureano Marquez has said repeatedly that the chavistas made it really hard for humorists to make a living. Not so much because of the censorship, but 1) because they produce so much hilarious material it is hard to catch up, and 2) because what they do in real life is so stupidly funny, there is nothing original professional humorists can do to make the jokes. These politicians are already living jokes