The Daily Show - Majority Retort
Everyone knows of the infamous Jon Stewart and his Television broadcast, The Daily Show, where he presents the news and deliberately makes fun of almost every aspect of it. In the short clip that was watched he introduced the topic of the responses to the Presidents State of the Union speech. He used parody a few times in his video, first when he said “Is that you Siri?” (The Daily Show- Majority Retort) when making fun of the way Joni Ernst spoke in her reposes. Later he showed the audience a video of a female anchor saying how Ernst job was to humanize her party he managed to introduce another technique, incongruity. What the anchor was declaring and what Stewart compared her to were complete opposites. He later used parody, a kind of satirical technique, when making fun of the way Rep. Curt Clawson spoke. In a sense he also uses exaggeration, another satirical technique, when mentioning that having a response to the Presidents Sate of the Union speech has become an annual thing, and when explaining to the audience the number of responses were presented each year. He not only mocked the number of responses this year but also the people involved in the responses and there speeches as a whole. He was able to express his feelings and his take of the subject simply by demolishing any ones opposition to what he thought should be considered right. Jon Stewart not only muses and entertains, and at times offends, he also manages to clearly and completely introduce and present each nights news.
