John Stewart has a show on comedy central called, The Daily Show with John Stewart. On his show he talks about issues that occur daily whether it be about scandals, news reports, or the election, he always has something to say. He finds any situation possible and is able to find the available arguments necessary to tackle the situation, thats why I call him the King of rhetoric.
Today, I want to talk about a specific episode of John Stewart's show.
This is a scandal my fellow penn staters are very familiar, but then again, this is a scandal that is very familiar to many people since it made the headline news. What John Stewart does is take a situation and uses rhetoric in a comedic approach.
In the beginning he mentions on the witness who walked in on Sandusky raping a child, and he says in a comedic light: 1) the person could have stopped it and called the police or option 2) the person could have called the police to stop it. In both cases, it could have been stopped. This was an excellent way of approaching the situation, he was not pointing fingers he went around it by using rhetoric through comedy. He continues to go on with the scandal, and again, he does not point fingers, he simply uses comedic rhetoric to express how he feels about any given situation.
Moving on from this episode, now that the republican primaries are going on, John Stewart is also exercising his use of rhetoric by not being biased to one party. He is very skillful in how he presents his exigence.
Another T.V. show that I think does an excellent job of using rhetoric is SNL. Just the other night SNL did a skit about Newt Gingrich and his "moon colony". SNL made a joke about something serious that Gingrich keeps talking about. It was hilarious
I think there are many shows that have been entertaining us for years that simply use comedic rhetoric.
Moving on from this episode, now that the republican primaries are going on, John Stewart is also exercising his use of rhetoric by not being biased to one party. He is very skillful in how he presents his exigence.
Another T.V. show that I think does an excellent job of using rhetoric is SNL. Just the other night SNL did a skit about Newt Gingrich and his "moon colony". SNL made a joke about something serious that Gingrich keeps talking about. It was hilarious
I think there are many shows that have been entertaining us for years that simply use comedic rhetoric.
I think its really interesting that you discussed rhetoric through comedy. You're right in the fact that, when done properly, it seems to be a very affective approach.
ReplyDeleteAs Kelsey mentioned above, it is nicely done with correlating rhetoric with comedy. And I personally like John very much and Im glad that he can use comedy to criticize the sensitive social issues. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHumor is often much more effective than another other rhetorical tool, and you're right: Jon Stewart is a master when it comes to this.
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