The late‐night talk show: Humor in fringe television
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Southern Speech Communication Journal
- Vol. 52 (4) , 377-389
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372704
Abstract
Although conflict and resolution are conventional functions in linear narrative genres, the joke format fails to resolve conflict. Thus, joking is one strategy for encouraging and sustaining resistance to ideological control. Using a cultural studies approach, this essay considers how the jokes of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and Joan Rivers explore, support, and disrupt different elements of the American social experience.Keywords
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