The Daily Show

Satire is a word with different meanings, but one thing most people connect it to is entertainment. While there are many satirical TV shows, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, are some of the most popular shows that manage to insult everything that catches their eyes. In the clip I saw of The Daily Show with the guest star Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), there were many satirical targets starting off with third world countries, dictators, and political figures that are accepted in society, but have the same qualities of some of the most famous dictators in the past decade. The purpose of the clip was not only to advertise the movie Dictator or to entertain, but also it wanted to show how corrupt some countries really are. Korea was mentioned in the clip. The show managed to undermine Korea's abilities in technology in a funny way. The biggest technique used to satirize was exaggeration with the case in which all of Korea ran out of toilet paper; understatement, when they loosely talk about nuclear weapons as if it is not a serious topic, and plenty of ambiguity in a perverted sense. The satirist wants the watcher to understand how different and yet how similar America is to the third world countires in the sense of their leaders. While there were many attacks at governing officials, many of them were indiscreetly added.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPSJF7BYOo