Through the studio readings the ideas of humour as Social Critique is throughly introduced and explored. Satire, being the main form of humorous expression within a comedy news segment. Laughter should toy with norms and challenge liberation through prevailing truth from the news presentation norm. The better the material researched and presented, the more powerful and funnier it is.Satire is therefore an expression of social and political criticism.It encapsulates the absurdity, dragging it out for viewers to witness, the purpose of this is positive change. Satire is provocative, ridicules, asserts the unsettling truths. Parody however draws on aesthetic conventions, in contrast to Satire’s social conventions. Parody ‘makes fun’ of how the text or genre operates, it aims to decontextualise how we make sense of this. Satire provokes reflection and re-evaulation from it’s active audience.

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