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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits Politics as Entertainment politics Occupy news media criticism journalism Jon Stewart Daily Show Curator's Note Going beyond humor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart creates a cl ...
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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  Structuration

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  Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

  Wednesday, August 22, 2012 — 5:29 am

  least, not in my neck of the woods), but that our own power exertions tend to be localized, as are the ...
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  HBO's Veep, Postfeminism, and Political Humor

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  August 23, 2012

  4 comments

  HBO's Veep, Postfeminism, and Political Humor Veep satire Politics as Entertainment Gender and Politics Curator's Note /*-->*/ Veep is not the first fictional program featuring a woman in the White House. It is, however, the first comedic one ...
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  Re: "Game Change" and "Showgirls": Politics as Camp

  Gender

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  Michael Barthel University of Washington

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 5:05 pm

  and Alaskan- the scene at the beginning with her at the state fair, for instance- to her as STAR and ...
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  “Get Out the Way, Malcolm Tucker”: Veep Fans and Cynical Citizens

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  Brett Boessen Austin College

  August 24, 2012

  1 comment

  “Get Out the Way, Malcolm Tucker”: Veep Fans and Cynical Citizens Veep The Thick of It Politics as Entertainment politics Iannucci fans fandom cynicism Armando Iannucci Curator's Note [Note: This post authored by Brett Boessen and Carrie Griffin.] In ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  I Was There

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 2:36 pm

  it's hard for me to read a piece that disses my man!;)  I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll ... dished out was indeed  substantive  -- at least to those in attendance. Although we struggled financially ...
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  Re: “Get Out the Way, Malcolm Tucker”: Veep Fans and Cynical Citizens

  Humor and Cynicism

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 8:51 pm

  is that when a character does attempt to effect change-e.g. Selina seems at least mildly ...
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  Re: HBO's Veep, Postfeminism, and Political Humor

  Selina vs. Amy

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  Carrie Griffin Independent

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 11:53 pm

  (at least slightly) tarnish her reputation claiming Selina's miscarriage as her own. Obviously it ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Contrarianism

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  Sunday, August 26, 2012 — 2:46 am

  scholarship) generally unhelpful. Not sure where to begin since I tend to disagree with almost every sentence ...
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  Hipster Archaeology

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 26, 2012

  11 comments

  around an object that may not even exist to begin with? In their video for “When I Wake Up,” the band ...

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