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Title: Politics are funny?


1
Politics are funny?
  • A decent-at-best presentation by Henry Alexander

2
Why Laugh?
  • Exhaustive research yields little empirical
    evidence on effectiveness of giggling

3
But seriously
  • Most political humor can be categorized as satire
    or parody and
  • Some dude did say something useful about the use
    of parody.
  • Parody and related forms of political humor are
    essential resources for sustaining public
    culture. Robert Harimon
  • Essentially, the performance of parody gives us a
    chance to step outside ourselves, and creates
    a type of checks and balance system so that we
    dont get super insulated.

4
  • Assuming we know what insulated means.

5
Whos Making You laugh?
  • Big budget pro humorists?
  • Small budget pro humorists?
  • Joe the humorist?
  • Conservative comedians
  • Moronic or oxymoronic?
  • Examples let you use other peoples hard work to
    make your presentation longer.

6
Let me ask you this
  • Which is more effective?
  • Why?
  • Does it even matter?
  • Harry Potter turns kids into Satanists!!!

7
Isnt this a class about the web though?
  • Yes, we study politics through the web and other
    digital media.
  • So how much funnier is the web?
  • Humor on the web is different in pretty much the
    same way everything else that weve discussed is
    different when it goes digital.

8
The End
  • Kthxbye!
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