Politics are funny?

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Politics are funny?

• A decent-at-best presentation by Henry Alexander

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Why Laugh?

• Exhaustive research yields little empirical
  evidence on effectiveness of giggling

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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.

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• Assuming we know what insulated means.

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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.

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Let me ask you this

• Which is more effective?
• Why?
• Does it even matter?
• Harry Potter turns kids into Satanists!!!

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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.

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The End

• Kthxbye!