Silly meets serious: discursive integration and the Stewart/Colbert era. Issue 2 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martin, Amanda; Kaye, Barbara K.; Harmon, Mark D.
• Is Part Of: Comedy studies. Volume 9:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 120
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Jon Stewart; Stephen Colbert; Discursive Integration; Political Comedy; 700.417
• DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2018.1494355
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-6118

Abstract

Abstract: This paper traces political satire on U. S. television. Using the theory of discursive integration, the paper examines the satire of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and the scholarship about their respective programs, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Discursive integration explained well the look and sound, as well as societal function, of such programs. Each blurs lines between news and entertainment, and helps audiences decode meanings from the hubris often in the news.