Feldman, L.( 2007). The news about comedy: Young audiences, The Daily Show, and evolving notions of journalism. Journalism. 8: 406. Retrieved from http://jou.sagepub.com/content/8/4/406.full.pdf+html
More statistics show that more and more younger people are retrieving their news from this show. It is also an example of how forms of journalism is changing, by using comedy to cushion hard questions.
Stoller, P.(2009). Horific Comedy: Cultural Resistance and Hauka Movement in Niger. 12. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/eth.1984.12.2.02a00050/pdf
Discusses how the Songhay people of Niger copped and protested french colonialism in their country by using comedy and old cultural norms. The Songhay people created a spiritual family called the Hauka, who mocked the french by miss speaking the french language and performing horrific stunts such as putting fire torches to their bodies.
Weaver, Simon. (2010). The ‘Other’ Laughs Back: Humor and Resistance in Anti-racist Comedy. 44. Retrieved http://soc.sagepub.com/content/44/1/31.full.pdf+html
This articles describes how African American’s use stereotypes to combat racism. In the article, Weaver discusses how African American comdedians in the early 1930s used black face comedy or minstrels as part of there routine, which was primarily used by white racist comedians to poke fun at and use black stereotypes to demeen African Americans. In doing so the African Americans were to throw these stereotypes back in the faces of the white audience by using comedy as a cushion for the statement they were trying to make.
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