Tag: Late night comedy
The speech set had shades of politics, humor, and public address, crossing realms of entertainment, news, and word-of-mouth communication. Josh Compton & Brett Miller https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0363811111000932?via%3Dihub David Letterman, host…
Humor both helped and complicated Letterman’s image repair discourse. Josh Compton & Brett Miller David Letterman, host of Late Show, told a joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter during one…
So long as voters keep watching late night talk shows—and presidents keep watching late night talk shows—we will continue to hear mentions of late night comedy political humor…
The goals of late-night comedy are secondary to the need to examine its content and potential impacts. Josh Compton https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327027hc1902_6 Although the medical community hoped that Vice President…
As we continue venturing into the often-complicated effects of political humor, I anticipate that we’ll have an increasingly clearer understanding of how viewers respond to political humor. Josh…
This textual analysis project builds on late night comedy political research and expands the scope to the domain of health by examining late night comic characterization of Vice…
Compton, J., & Pfau, M. (2005, May). Effects of late night political comedy on perceptions of candidates during the primaries [paper presentation]. International Communication Association, New York City, NY, United…
Compton J., & Pfau, M. (2004, November). Resistance to ridicule: Inoculating against political attack in late-night comedy [paper presentation]. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, United States.