News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe

In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information, conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more surprisingly, so-called 'fake news' is now a truly global phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire programming appearing throughout the world.

1. News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance Geoffrey Baym and Jeffrey P. Jones 2. "Find Out Exactly What to Think-Next!": Chris Morris, Brass Eye, and Journalistic Authority Graham Meikle 3. From the "Little Aussie Bleeder" to Newstopia: (Really) Fake News in Australia Stephen Harrington 4. No Strings Attached? Les Guignols de l'info and French Television Waddick Doyle 5. The Comical Inquisition: Striscia la Notizia and the Politics of Fake News on Italian Television Gabriele Cosentino 6. Localizing The Daily Show: The heute show in Germany Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw and Guido Keel 7. Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global: Parody and Postcoloniality on Indian Television Sangeet Kumar 8. Satire in the Holy Wonderland: The Comic Framing of Arab Leaders in Israel Limor Shifman 9. Out of Control: Palestinian News Satire and Government Power in the Age of Social Media Matt Sienkiewicz 10. The Geopolitics of Parazit, the Iranian Televisual Sphere, and the Global Infrastructure of Political Humor Mehdi Semati 11. The Witty Seven: Late Socialist-Capitalist Satire in Hungary Anikó Imre 12. "The Tattlers' Tattle": Fake News, Linguistic National Intimacy, and New Media in Romania Alice Bardan 13. Political Satire in Danish Television: Reinventing a Tradition Hanne Bruun 14. Live From New York, It's the Fake News! Saturday Night Live and the (Non)Politics of Parody Amber Day and Ethan Thompson