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The biggest enemy to President Trump’s administration is not the Democrats, it is the comedians that appear on late night shows. In his article, “In Trump’s America, Comedians Lead the Resistance,” Dean Obeidallah asserts that comedians are the biggest opponents to Trump's administration. While Democrats do speak against Trump’s proposals on things such as healthcare and foreign affairs, they fail to garner attention. The article gives an example of Jimmy Kimmel, a host of a late night comedy show

Last Week Tonight is a satirical news show that tackles serious social issues, and is anchored by John Oliver. Oliver has recently released a 17 minute episode that investigates the conflict of interest involved with pharmaceutical companies advertising to doctors. The purpose of this comedic examination was to unveil the unethical marketing techniques and the secret deals of the Pharmaceutical companies. He also sheds light on the doctor’s roles in this pharmaceutical lobby. Oliver uses an array

Tina Dupuy is known as an award-winning writer, an investigative journalist, and a comedian. She’s written for The Atlantic, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, Vox, and Mother Jones, which are newspapers that covers various subjects including politics. The effect of satire in her writing allows people to see these issues in a new light. Dupuy’s style, being characterized with ethical appeal, colloquial expressions and diction is expressed through wit and many rhetorical questions. Dupuy begins her

Political communication uses different tools to convey the message to the audience. The use of humour is one such tool for disseminating political news in an alternative way. Political humour is intended to evoke amusement about governance of society. Political satire is a humour technique widely used in political communication to express and ridicule the absurdities of its subjects in order to affect or prevent changes (Kaid and Holtz-Bacha, 2007). The Oxford Dictionary defines satire as the use

for entertainment has now somewhat started to incorporate big news into the monologue given at the beginning of the show. Late Night with Seth Meyers “Team Trump's Absurd Defenses for Don Jr.'s Emails: A Closer Look” and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert “Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own 'Deepthroat'” both use satire to deliver the information on the Donald Trump Jr. -Russian emails controversy to the audience. The use of selective information on Donald Trump Jr. interviews, the bias tone the host has

It’s 2016 and Barack Obama’s 8th year of going to the presidential dinner at the White House, where the comedy said there is more pop culture related and less like what people expect to hear from politicians. From previous years he’s made references to “the Hunger Games” and drunk texting, and said he has a list that rhymes with bucket list for his last year in office. Even though Obama may not be the first post-racial president he is arguably the first postmodern humorist, and with his humor in

Citizens United. In Tribe and Matz’s book, Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, focuses on the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case and found that “...the corporations and unions have a First Amendment right to spend as much money as they choose when advocating the election or defeat of political candidates, so long as they do not coordinate their advertising with the candidate's' campaign" (Tribe and Matz 88). After Colbert did some research, he aired clips showing how

affirmed. The test of accurately reported evidence is present amidst evidence from Dr. Stone, Lieutenant Kendrick, and PFC Santiago. When Dr. Stone testified on behalf of PFC Santiago’s death, he bases it off of his experience as a medical doctor. He reports that in his professional opinion, poison was the leading contributor to PFC Santiago’s death. Consequently, it was not a statement of fact, thus it was violated. In addition, the evidence provided by Kendrick is not accurately reported. Before the

Fake news is news that does not tell the entire truth about a story or reports it wrong or simply lies. Fake news could also be reporting news and commentary indistinctly, and not make a clear enough distinction between the two. Alternative facts is another branch of the fake news tree. What exactly is alternative facts? No one is sure what these two words mean, so confusion was widespread, when an advisor to the president stated it in reference to the president’s crowd at the inauguration. CQR

migrant workers. The congressional testimony from Colbert was meant to highlight the issues with our over dependence of migrant workers and how little we appreciate them. Bishop goes through the whole event and states her opinions on the matter using quotes and facts. She also tries to inform the reader on both sides of the argument for better perspective. Sarah Bishop throughout the article tries to explain why she believes that Stephen Colbert and other figures of comedy can have an outstanding