Humor as a tool of political discourse: from media personalities to candidates for the presidency
Journal: RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Year: 2019

The research is concentrated on the increasing popularity of political context in humour if we take into account the state fragility, identified the manipulative properties of humorous content in general, as well in the research we have tried to evaluate the contribution that ridiculous things in speech make while shaping public opinion. Considering the changes in the sense of joke formation and formats of presenting content on TV by the leading production-company of Ukraine Studio “Quarter 95”,