This essay is proudly sponsored by Last Week Tonight. Last Week Tonight, the most trusted name in news, even though that’s CNN’s logo. The usual format of the show is to stick with one main story for fifteen minutes. Many people thought that satire couldn’t be done this way, but Last Week Tonight has changed that view and established their own satire culture. John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, isn’t afraid to take on countries or corporations, criticizing their sanctimonious operations. The length and in depth research done by this show has amazed me and now I always try to see beyond basic comments said by news commentators. Having watched this show since its premiere episode on April 27th, 2014 I tend to overthink quotes in attempt to relate it to the Last Week Tonight show structure.
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Using her comedic experience as a women she extended the article to relate to other portions of her life. In the end it turned out her daughter only picked it up because she thought it was a Halloween book. Not because it was a book about a working mom depicted as a witch. By using comedy to connect it to her past experiences she overthought the intensions of her child, and used it to her advantage to write a comedic article. Similarly Sheryl Sandberg, in Why I Want Women to Lean In wrote about her struggle in the work culture of a technological environment. Where engineers are recognized as night owls and expected to work long hours into the night. Being a woman in a male dominated environment was hard for her because she overthought what others would think if she changed a part of the culture. All of the cultures I just mentioned are ‘geeky’ and require knowledge behind them, these cultures are male
Using her comedic experience as a women she extended the article to relate to other portions of her life. In the end it turned out her daughter only picked it up because she thought it was a Halloween book. Not because it was a book about a working mom depicted as a witch. By using comedy to connect it to her past experiences she overthought the intensions of her child, and used it to her advantage to write a comedic article. Similarly Sheryl Sandberg, in Why I Want Women to Lean In wrote about her struggle in the work culture of a technological environment. Where engineers are recognized as night owls and expected to work long hours into the night. Being a woman in a male dominated environment was hard for her because she overthought what others would think if she changed a part of the culture. All of the cultures I just mentioned are ‘geeky’ and require knowledge behind them, these cultures are male