Satirizing News Media, Changing Taiwan’s Feelings: <i>The Night Night Show with Brian Tseng</i>’s Adaptation of the American Satire News Format
The US television program <i>The Daily Show</i> has inspired creative talents worldwide to adapt the American political satire news formats to their own political environments. One example is <i>The Night Night Show</i>, hosted by Brian Tseng between 2018 and 2020 and produce...
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| description | The US television program <i>The Daily Show</i> has inspired creative talents worldwide to adapt the American political satire news formats to their own political environments. One example is <i>The Night Night Show</i>, hosted by Brian Tseng between 2018 and 2020 and produced by the STR Network from Taiwan. Instead of approaching the show as the result of the diffusion of the US cultural and political model into the rest of the world, this article contextualizes <i>The Night Night Show</i>’s adaptation of an American satirical news format in the Sinophone political discourse of laughter and satire in the modern history of Taiwan. It argues that while the show’s adaptation of an American satirical news format demonstrates how satire can dismantle linguistic and national boundaries as a transnational bonding force, it also brings this American format to critical scrutiny. In particular, the principal cultural understanding of news media as sensationalistic and propagandist instead of truthful in the local context contests the notions of “truthiness” central to the American satire news formats. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f66eb7f1a8c43c5ae132758328ef9192023-12-22T14:19:36ZengMDPI AGJournalism and Media2673-51722023-11-01441097111310.3390/journalmedia4040070Satirizing News Media, Changing Taiwan’s Feelings: <i>The Night Night Show with Brian Tseng</i>’s Adaptation of the American Satire News FormatMuyun Zhou0Departments of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801, USAThe US television program <i>The Daily Show</i> has inspired creative talents worldwide to adapt the American political satire news formats to their own political environments. One example is <i>The Night Night Show</i>, hosted by Brian Tseng between 2018 and 2020 and produced by the STR Network from Taiwan. Instead of approaching the show as the result of the diffusion of the US cultural and political model into the rest of the world, this article contextualizes <i>The Night Night Show</i>’s adaptation of an American satirical news format in the Sinophone political discourse of laughter and satire in the modern history of Taiwan. It argues that while the show’s adaptation of an American satirical news format demonstrates how satire can dismantle linguistic and national boundaries as a transnational bonding force, it also brings this American format to critical scrutiny. In particular, the principal cultural understanding of news media as sensationalistic and propagandist instead of truthful in the local context contests the notions of “truthiness” central to the American satire news formats.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/4/4/70Sinophone political satiretruthinessnews media historysensationalist aesthetics |
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