Can jokes function as weakened versions of persuasive attacks? If so, humor could be functioning as an inoculation.
Josh Compton
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From conventional late-night comedy talk shows to cable television news satire, editorial cartoons to viral online video clips; from books to bumper stickers, candidates’ jokes to jokes about candidates, political humor is widespread in modern political campaigns. Political humor may be at unmatched levels, and as this essay reveals, scholarship on political humor is at an unprecedented level as well. No outlet for political humor has received more attention in recent years than late-night television comedy, and no programs have received more attention than Comedy Central’s The Daily Show (1996-) and The Colbert Report (2005-).
Compton, J. (2011). Surveying scholarship on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. In A. Amarasingam (Ed.), The Colbert/Stewart effect: Essays on the real impacts of fake news (pp. 9-33). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company.
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