From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, from Chevy Chase’s spoofing of President Ford on Saturday Night Live to Stephen Colbert’s roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Strange Bedfellows explores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy
From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, from Chevy Chase’s spoofing of President Ford on Saturday Night Live to Stephen Colbert’s roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Strange Bedfellows explores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy
Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke
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ISBN-13: | 9780813544762 |
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Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Publication date: | 03/05/2008 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 280 |
File size: | 1 MB |