Colombian Satire Essay

Analysis

Having set the questionnaires and explained the topics of discussion that were brought into the conversations with the 33 elite interviewees, in this part of the research the findings will be clustered within the following analytical categories:

1. The status of contemporary Colombian political comedy.

2. The civic potentials Colombians receive from satire (Education and Civic Engagement).

3. The reasons of the absence of political satire on TV.

4. Telenovelas, the great finding.

1. Status of contemporary Colombian Political Comedy

Before exploring some findings about the state of art of political comedy in Colombia, it is relevant to acknowledge the nonappearance of printed satire as a specific analysis category within the following analyses. Some references and agents from this particular field will be included in the other subheadings though. The reasons: First, printed satirical content has always existed in Colombia, and sometimes as the only medium that permanently has transmitted it via cartoons, caricatures, comic strips, literature, opinion columns, graphic parodies, etc. Secondly, printed satire can be placed in a middle ground inside the analytical triangle of TV satire absence, the radio dominance on the field, and the online content boom. In other words, its stability as a medium for the genre is beyond the interest

In this regard, satire and political comedy are specifically alleged to serve as control mechanisms of the morally identified as negative conducts of such players. This means that the fields in which political comedy and satire are expected to be committed to are all kinds of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, arrogance, deception, dishonesty, and caricaturistic physical appearances of the players in