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Robinson, Joanna. 2014. Watch President Obama Fill in for Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Vanity Fair, 9 December 2014. At: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/12/obama-fills-in-for-colbert (accessed 17 November 2015). Young, Dannagal G. and Lindsay Hoffman. 2012. Acquisition of Current-Events Knowledge from Political Satire Programming: An Experimental Approach. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 20 (5): 290–304. Talev, Margaret. 2014. Stephen Colbert Interviews ‘Emperor’ Obama. Bloomberg, 9 December 2014. At: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-09/emperor-obamas-interview-with-stephen-colbert (accessed 17 November 2015). Boler, Megan and Stephen Turpin. 2008. The Daily Show and Crossfire: Satire and Sincerity as Truth to Power. In Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, ed., Megan Boler. 383–403. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Smith, Chris. 2010. America is a Joke. New York Magazine, 12 September 2010. At: http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/68086/ (accessed 14 September 2010).

A similar thing happened later in the interview when Alex gave the DPM thirty seconds to convince him to vote. Not to vote for the Lib Dems, just to vote. For anyone. Nigel Farage Plays ‘Fruitcake or Loony’ – Have I Got News for You: Series 47, Episode 2 – BBC One. YouTube online video, posted 14 April 2014. At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNL7HYz3iQ (accessed 19 November 2015). Harrington, Stephen. 2012. The Uses of Satire: Unorthodox News, Cultural Chaos and the Interrogation of Power. Journalism, 13 (1): 38–52.

Labour’s Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, talks “a lot of sense on Europe”, he said.Hoffman, Lindsay and Dannagal G. Young. 2011. Satire, Punch Lines, and the Nightly News: Untangling Media Effects on Political Participation. Communication Research Reports, 28 (2): 159–68.

He said: “I just think they have both got it a bit wrong at the moment, actually. I think they are both lurching left and right.” Coe, Jonathan. 2013. Sinking Giggling into the Sea (Review of ‘The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson’, ed. Harry Mount). London Review of Books 35 (14) (18 July 2013): 30–31. At: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n14/jonathan-coe/sinking-giggling-into-the-sea (accessed 16 November 2015).Gray, Jonathan, Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson, eds. 2009a. Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. New York: New York University Press.

In closing I would like to make it perfectly clear that my family is not the anti-social monsters that we are portrayed to be. There is always that extra family at our house for holidays that has nowhere else to go. If Danielle didn’t start with her nonsense, I am sure that she and her daughters would have been that family this Christmas… now, I’m thinkin’ NOT. Well, her daughters are still welcome ; ) I wish I didn’t have to spend so much time talking about the “Danielle show” so I could comment on how funny I think the rest of the show is. Hopefully on my next blog I will have the space to do so. She decided to go there in her blog last week and so “THIS girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!” During the appearance on Channel 4’s The Last Leg, he was asked how many times in the last five years he had wanted to give the prime minister a slap. Montopoli, Brian. 2010. Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000. CBC News, 30 October 2010. At: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html (accessed 1 November 2010). Contagion effect, where standing near infected players increases your chance of contracting the illness.Want to expose a bullshitter? Call them out for the cheeky little fibber they are with our big, bold, and bright red Bullshit Button. Simply wait for the moment when the lies begin to drop from their lips and then BLAM! Hit the BS button, causing it to flash and shout phrases calling them out, thus visually and audibly informing those nearby that there is some grade 'A' bullshitting going on. Subtlety is so overrated and such a waste of time. Mercea, Dan. 2014. Obama Fills in For Stephen Colbert. CNN, 9 December 2014. At: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/08/politics/obama-on-stephen-colbert-show/ (accessed 17 November 2015). Variety of treatments available, such as specific medications, masks, and umbrellas to prevent the common cold. OK, now onto DANIELLE”S BLOG last week. Danielle, Danielle, Danielle...you just don’t know when to quit do you? The girl admits she pushes buttons and I like to say she knows exactly where my buttons are. Here’s the truth.