
Stephen Colbert holding a copy of the fine book Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Age
Here’s Stephen Colbert holding a copy of the fine book Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Age, edited by my friends Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey Jones, and Ethan Thompson. As the editor from NYU Press who gave the book to Colbert wrote, Stephen “noticeably perked up” when he got to my chapter: “Stephen Colbert’s Parody of the Postmodern.”
Geoffrey Baym is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the
Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) traces a historical trajectory from the height of the network age and Walter Cronkite’s Evening News, to our current post-network era, when the late-night comedians now stand among the nation’s most important newscasters.