Satire Power Duo

As a long-time viewer of Comedy Central's late night satire shows, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report," I found it easy to recognize the particular styles of satire that are employed in each one.  Jon Stewart will continually employ the style of exaggeration and incongruity, making fun of how loaded the political language is with fallacious and misleading content; while Stephen Colbert will stick to parodying the extreme right wing party.  It was also easy to spot their particular styles of humor.  Often they use Horatian Satire; it seems just like them to have their staff photoshop the McDonalds logo on top of the American flag at Iwo Jima.  This is all, of course, a big jab at the pervasive and dominant media culture.  They make fun of, essentially every news story on CNN or MSNBC or Fox news to criticize the way most Americans learn about the world.  Even, and most especially, the world of politics is not exempt from their distinctive brand of satire.  And now that we have the terms to describe that kind of humor, it is easier to put their versions of satire down on paper.