Compare And Contrast Late Night And The Daily Show

I found that all the assigned videos contained a simplified commentary on the news. The SNL skits both focused very heavily on the personalities of the people in the news. Much of SNL’s humor comes from their exaggerations of people’s personalities. While both of the SNL skits were related to the news from around the time they aired, neither of them contained any factual information which couldn’t be found in the headlines of a major newspaper. While John Oliver’s show contains a large amount of factual information, he frequently cherry pics the opposing arguments which are presented to the viewer in an effort to make the people who disagree with him look ridiculous. John Oliver’s reports are extremely partisan and can leave viewers with an oversimplified version of

I thought the clip from Late Night the Daily show were the closest to what I’d expect from a more conventional news show. Colbert and SNL’s shows both contained very little actual news, while Late Night and the Daily show both moved from news story to news story. Oliver’s show had an overarching thesis which was being pushed down the viewer’s throat while neither Late Night nor the Daily show had a single overarching purpose. That being said, Late Night contained a lot more accusatory-commentary on the news than what I’d expect from an outlet like the Washington Post. Late Night, the Daily Show, and SNL all had their anchors mimic Trump. Such behavior is perfectly normal for Late Night television, but is fairly uncommon in more traditional news reports. By definition, comedy shows will always be engineered to make their viewers laugh. This makes it rather difficult for the producers of comedy shows to include in-depth and balanced reports. Without a simplified commentary of the news, these shows would lose most of their humor and