It’s Funny because it’s True:
The Role of Comedy in the Alternative Media
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published 07/08/2007
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Summary
Humor is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by the alternative media in an effort to give a voice to the disenfranchised and to attract an audience for alternative thought. For the purposes of this project, “alternative media” is an amorphous term that can be applied to any media that is owned by an independent company rather than a mainstream corporation or media that gives significant attention to views not normally expressed by that of the mainstream. This project will examine the uses and reactions to comedy in the alternative media, as well as study the alternative media that use comedy as a way to usurp the mainstream media’s hold on the way news is delivered and discussed. These forms will include television, such as news spoof shows The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and printed sources, such as the satirical newspaper The Onion and several alternative political cartoons.
Table of Contents
- There is a long and well-documented history of comedy as an instrument for political and social dissent. In his book Sudden Glory
- I Get my New from a Fake Anchor: Comedy News Programs
- All the Fake News That's Fit to Print: Satire Newspapers and Cartoons
- Make Them Laugh: The Link between Comedy and the Alternative Press
- No One Will Take You Seriously: The Problems with Political Comedy
- But the Couch is so Comfortable: The First Step
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