"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoG14Uer2Pw

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is a show I usually watch on my own time. The video above shows a little segment of the show from a 2012 show. There are three satirical targets in this video. First, it is the people who regulate the lunch of students across america. Second, it is Israel's United Nations representative who discusses Iran's nuclear policies. And third, it is Amare Stoudemire. For the first target, the satirical purpose is to change the policy of school lunches, because clearly they do not work. For the second target, the purpose is to force a recognition of common sense, because how the representative was discussing the bomb threat in Iran was ridiculous. For the third target, it was again a force of recognition of common sense, because if one trains to be an athlete and nothing else, he better make it into professional sports because he would have wasted his time. For the first target, diminution and exaggeration is used because he takes the issue of children throwing away their lunch and not having proper nutrition, and shows it in such a simple way that makes the listener realize that this is a big issue. For the second target, innuendo is used because he directly insults the representative because he uses a very dumb way to represent a bomb. And for the last target, he uses irony because he used to play basketball but now he ended up as a tv host. Jon Stewart wants us to know from the first target that we should complain about the food policies in our cafeterias because the policies the government is using is not working. For the second target, he is trying to show that either the threat in Iran is not a threat after all, or that the manner in which the world is discussing this issue is ridiculous. And at last, for the last target, he is trying to tell us that do not rely on sports to make a living.