The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies

by Trischa Goodnow (Editor), Stephanie M. Purtle (Collaborator), Josh Compton (Collaborator), Aaron Hess (Collaborator), Brian T. Kaylor (Collaborator), Ryan Erik McGeough (Collaborator), Lawrence J. Mullen (Collaborator), C Wesley Buerkle (Collaborator), John W. Self (Collaborator), Robert Spicer (Collaborator), Timothy Steffensmeier (Collaborator), Penina Wiesman (Collaborator), Kelly Wilz (Collaborator) and Jonathan E. Barbur (Collaborator)

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The Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.

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