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Presidential candidates have been making it a point to add the late-night comedy circuit to the campaign trail. This title explains that this programming is more than a mere replacement for traditional news outlets; it plays its own role in shaping public perception of government and the political process.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Losing Our Religion
2. "Showmen is Devoid of Politics": The Roots of Pseudo-Satire and the Rise of the Comedy-Industrial Complex
3. Film at 11:00, Jokes at 11:30: Topical Comedy and the News
4. The Personal and the Political
5. Pay No Attention to That Man in Front of the Curtain
6. Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith
7. For Whom the Bell Dings
8. Laughing All the Way to the White House
9. Irony is Dead...Long Live Satire?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Strange Bedfellows How LateNight Comedy Turns

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      Publisher MW - Rutgers University Press
      Published 3 May 2008
      ISBN-13 9780813542843
      978-0813542843
      ISBN-10 0813542847
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      Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presidential candidates have been making it a point to add the late-night comedy circuit to the campaign trail. This title explains that this programming is more than a mere replacement for traditional news outlets; it plays its own role in shaping public perception of government and the political process.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      1. Losing Our Religion
      2. "Showmen is Devoid of Politics": The Roots of Pseudo-Satire and the Rise of the Comedy-Industrial Complex
      3. Film at 11:00, Jokes at 11:30: Topical Comedy and the News
      4. The Personal and the Political
      5. Pay No Attention to That Man in Front of the Curtain
      6. Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith
      7. For Whom the Bell Dings
      8. Laughing All the Way to the White House
      9. Irony is Dead...Long Live Satire?
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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