The Daily Show

laugh at politicians and listen to comedians”. From a PR standpoint, it is important to see where the public puts their trust in news reporting, and it seems that these comedy news shows, such as The Daily Show or Last Week Tonight, are becoming a reliable source for young viewers to get their news. The Practice of Public Relations text states “The first decade of the 21st century saw a dramatic increase in the number of Americans turning to cable television-CNN,MSNBC, Fox, CNBC, and even the Comedy Channel-for their daily news”(Seitel…

Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart delivers a clear, brief comment to the audience,…

The criticism of Daily Show regarding Criminal justice reform Humans’ minds are the most precious gifts god has given to us. However, sometimes our minds could be manipulated without being known by ourselves. As people know more and more about how our brains and psycho-activities are functioning, the ways to mislead people’s thoughts are being mastered by more and more people, especially politicians. Under this circumstance, it seems that people need a role of some outside instructions to…

Jon Stewart is a comedian who worked on The Daily Show, which recently ended, and others. In the Daily Show, a lot of work, research, and other things had to be done before the show aired each night. That required a whole team to help with the many tasks. Jon Stewart appears to be a nice and humorous person on the television, but he is not the same towards his writers and other staff. He has a low temper, and sometimes takes it out on them. “A staffer recalls the time when Stewart’s temper got…

The Daily Show - Consequence-Free Speech Stewart John during this podcast criticizes an NBA sports and political personnel. The structure itself comes from a network named “Comedy Central’. Compared to our podcast, The Daily Show had focused far more on criticisms. The main genres that the podcast focuses on is politics and comedy. The comedic touch towards the podcast was that he was able to keep audiences entertained by making a humorous atmosphere with jokes and mocking other people while we…

Broader Sources of Knowledge In ancient times, people passed on survival experience to the next generation through oral method. Later, various ways such as making ropes, drawing pictures on walls, and characters emerged to record daily events. People record daily life in order to educate next generation so that the next generation of people can live a better life. With the advent of photographic film, the recording process becomes more and more lifelike and vivid. With the rapid development of…

of satirical techniques many new news show had begun to shake the standards the news had previously had. Starting with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and even websites like the onion all having a unique and ever evolving standards of their own. These news television programs unifying news and comedy into something new shocked people. Some of the technique utilized for the sake of these types of news show are hyperbole, and fake news to…

games to the different career paths that we can take in life. He explains that at a very basic level all of these task involve the basic career skills that we need to succeed in the work force. However, he finds it hypocritical that we use this digital realm as a sort of escapism when in fact we do not really escape from anything that we do in the real world. I believe that this theory of his can be expanded to other sources of media. Therefore, for my analysis, I will do a comparison of a real…

sketch, but more importantly, it shows SNL’s opinion towards Sarah Palin as not being “smart enough” for vice president. Additionally, the nonverbal communication used as feedback to “Sarah Palin”, also provides humor to the audience, and indicates that “Sarah Palin’s” message was not clear to “Katie Couric”. “Katie Couric” uses chronemics every time after “Sarah Palin” speaks, indicating that she is appalled or confused by the response that “Palin” has given. For example, “Sarah Palin” says:…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL SATIRE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE The ‘Late Show’ employs political satire to promote the agenda of the public sphere - enable citizens to engage in critical public debate, by advocating for a ‘deliberative democracy’. Political satire is often described as humour’s most overtly political genre (Faina 2012, p. 347). The Late Show’s harnesses the power of political satire to frame important socio-political issues in a manner similar to how individuals engage with…