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Poli 311.01 (W,IT) Professor Sammy Basu |
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Political Humor in popular media today:
Film
Film: Bowling For Columbine (2002)
Film: Fahrenheit 911 (2004)
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/michaelmoore/v/fahrenheit911.htm
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/a/105287.htm
TV: The Awful Truth: Complete First Season,
Books:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/the_aristocrats.html
http://www.dead-frog.com/aristocrats/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats
Television
The Daily Show TV (Comedy Channel)
Book:
America
(The Book) : A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/books/16masl.html?th
Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect (NBC cancelled) and RealTime (HBO)
Dennis Miller, The Dennis Miller Show
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/26/tv.dennismiller.ap/
The Chapelle Show
Late Night TV Shows
Saturday Night Live
MAD TV
Radio
Rush Limbaugh, Radio and TV
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/parody.guest.html
Al Franken & Air America Radio
Especially "The O'Franken Factor," a dig at Fox News Channel's O'Reilly,
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/a/076302.htm
Talk radio
Print Media Pundits
Ann Coulter
Cartoons and Graphic Prints
Political and editorial cartoons
Doonesbury
Boondocks
Graphic Novel
Aaron McGruder, Reginald Hudlin
and Kyle Baker. Birth
of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Art Spiegelman, In the
Shadow of No Towers
Internet
All media reproduced and/or made distinctly for the web.
Humor websites:
Book: The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 14
and dozens of online imitators and successors
http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/ like the Onion only bitter
http://www.humorisdead.com/ a more pungent Onion
Animated cartoons
Mark Fiore, animated cartoonist online
Blogs
One stop source:
About.com
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldailyfeed1.htm
political dot.comedy awards
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldotcomedy2004.htm
Broadway:
Written and directed by Tim Robbins and performed by The Actors' Gang, "Embedded"
Other
Car bumper stickers, etc