This document provides a summary and comparison of two popular American talk shows: The Daily Show and The Ricki Lake Show. The Daily Show, hosted by Jon Stewart, focuses on political satire and interviews prominent politicians and celebrities. In contrast, The Ricki Lake Show invites everyday people such as families and students to discuss social issues relevant to younger audiences, like relationships and weight loss. Both shows attract loyal audiences and have been popular for many years, but discuss different types of topics using humor and addressing real-life problems respectively.
2. TALK SHOW
Nowadays talk show or chat show had become the famous and one of the
favorite program watches by everybody especially American and Australian. A television
or radio show in which noted people, such as authorities in a particular field, participate
in discussions or are interviewed and often answer questions from viewers or listeners.
( Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009).They discuss various type of topic include social
topics, love and relationship, parenting, political and other more interesting topics. They
will invite some guests such as politicians, actor or singer to attend the talk show and
talk about their works and personal lives as well as their latest or project before. Most
of the host will make fun of the celebrity interview, musical performance or social news
and it has become one of the funny parts during the talk show and it has attracted many
people to watch the talk show on time.
The Daily Show now is the one of the most popular and well known program that
must be watched by mostly American and Australian. It is an American late night
comedy satirical television program that host by Jon Steward since year 1999 after the
first host, Craig Kilborn. The Daily Show has become the most trusted source for political
news on television. The Daily Show had won many awards. As for the Ricki Lake show, it
is a daytime tabloid talk show which hosted by Ricki Lake, an American actress. The Ricki
Lake show mostly care about social issue. Its original run was on 313 September 1993
until 2004. The Ricki Lake show mostly attracts younger audience because its topic is
funny and mostly based on younger person position. The comparison will be taken
3. between the Daily Show and the Ricki Lake show based on their types of topic, guest
interview, audience and something more about the television program.
The Daily Show which hosted by Jon Steward was a late night comedy and satire
television program. After Jon Steward had taken over the program from Craig Kilborn,
the first host, the show are now mostly focused on politics and had national wide. The
Daily Show make comedy and satire on current events, covering politics, technology,
trends, pop culture, sports and entertainment. He also had involved in interviewing the
famous politicians, comedians, celebrities and more. Jon had interviewed famous
politicians such as former Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Cinnton, current United
States President Barack Obama, famous celebrity such as Tom Cruise and Tom Hawks.
Besides that, Jon Steward lead a team of correspondence with him to tackle the real
news, political figures, media organizations with taped field pieces and on the spot
coverage of important issues. The program is now popular among the young audiences.
Most of them think that the daily show news headlines are more interested than the
CNN news headlines because the daily show uses the funny method to show the current
issues. The amount of audience has more than tripled to a peak of over a million
viewers night in 2004 (John Colapinto, 2004).
The Ricki Lake Show which host by Ricki Lake, an American actress. The show is a
new syndicated daytime tabloid talk show. The Ricki Lake Show is different from The
Daily Show, it doesnt invites any famous politicians or celebrities as their guest but they
invites some family, teenagers or college students because their main synopsis are
4. taking topics from younger persons point view so that socials people may know what
had happen to people around them. The discussion topics are mostly taken from our
daily life such as family problem, love and relationship, and social issues that relevant to
the younger audience. Besides that, they also take topic about divorce, loss weight,
marriage that can help some of people solve their problem when they were in the same
situation. The Ricki Lake show was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award during1 1994
but they didnt won it at last.
In the conclusion, the Daily show are most related to political news where the
Ricki Lake Show most related to problem that mostly people facing in their daily life.
Most of us can knew more news in an interested and exciting ways through watching
the Daily Show and learn many skill of solving daily life problem with watching the Ricki
Lake show. Both talk shows had their own specially and their own faithful audience and
they are still famous for long time. Both talk shows are very interesting and excited to
watch.
5. REFERENCES LINKS :
1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/talk+show
2. http://www.thedailyshow.com/news-team/jon-stewart
3. John Colapinto, 2004. The Most Trusted Name in News: How Jon
Stewart and The Daily Show made fake news a hit .
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4. http://talkshows.about.com/od/daytimefavorites/a/Ricki-The-Ricki-Lake-Show.htm