Capitol Steps brings bipartisan belly laughs to SoFla.

No matter what your political leaning, you have to admit this presidential election is ripe for parody.

That’s what the Capitol Steps, a Washington D.C.based comedy troupe, was thinking with their latest show, “What To Expect When You’re Electing,” coming to Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

“It’s a good time to be in political satire,” says Elaina Newport, one of the main writers and a founding member of the company.

The bipartisan bashing has been going on since 1981 and takes the form of parody lyrics set to wellknown tunes, about 30 of them sung by five cast members in a 90-minute show.

Here’s more about the show in a Q and A with Newport.

Are you thrilled with this political season?

In my head I keep thinking: how do you come up with this stuff? I was watching the “60 Minutes” interview with Donald Trump, and Lesley Stahl said, “You’re not exactly the most humble person.” And Trump says, “I’m the most humble person that you’ll ever know.” That would be a joke you would write. He’s bragging about how humble he is. He almost makes the satire impossible. But that’s the comedy. We try and exaggerate these people even more, believe it or not.

It must be hard to keep the show up-todate when it’s on the road and stuff keeps happening, right?

Right? It is. We put a Mike Pence joke in the day he was announced. We are constantly updating the show. Once I texted a joke to a performer while he was backstage waiting to go on. I think the audience gets a thrill from that. One time we sent a song in the afternoon and that night on stage [the performer] completely forgot the words. She stood up there and just said, “I just got this two hours ago.” The audience love sharing the moment.

There are two main writers, myself and Mark Eaton. We work here at what we call “Capitol Steps World Headquarters,” and we’re writing most of it and we send it to the performers, mostly by email. So it’s, “‘Here is a new song to the tune of ‘Putting on the Ritz’ and it’s Vladimir Putin in ‘Putin on a Blitz.’ ” So we tell them, “Here’s the YouTube of the original song. Have it memorized by tomorrow night.”

Any regional changes, particularly in a state that has given so many top political headlines like Florida has?

We really had to come to Florida, just to say thank-you. When we get to Florida, we might do something special, as a sort of thank-you for sending us Jeb and Marco.

What are some of the parody songs in this show?

Oh let’s see, we have Hillary in “Deleter of the Fact” to the song “Leader of the Pack.” Bernie Sanders sings “If There Were No Rich Men.” Bernie and Hillary getting back together and getting along in “Elderly and Ovaries” set to “Ebony and Ivory.” One of the new songs we use is [Walk The Moon’s] “Shut Up and Dance.” We have ‘”Shut Up and Vote for Me.” That’s one of the Donald Trump songs. For President Obama, it’s “Talking About the Base.” We always say that if you want to see Barack sing a rock song, Bernie sing a show tune and Putin sing shirtless, then this is your show.

“The Capitol Steps — What To Expect When You’re Electing” runs Thursday through Sunday at the Broward Center, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday; 3 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $39. To order, call 954-462-0222 or go to Browardcenter.org.