Strange bedfellows
Subtitle: how late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke
By: Russell L. Peterson.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780813542843
Subjects: Television comedies -- United States -- History and criticism; Television talk shows -- United States; Television broadcasting of news -- United States
Description: A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Losing our religion; title: "Showmen is devoid of politics": the roots of pseudo-satire and the rise of the comedy-industrial complex; title: Film at 11:00, jokes at 11:30: topical comedy and the news; title: The personal and the political; title: Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain; title: Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith; title: For whom the bell dings; title: Laughing all the way to the White House; title: Irony is dead... long live satire?