Satire in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show

Abstract

This study deal with the analysis satire in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show. The objectives of the study were to investigate types of satire, to describe how the host is used satire and to explain why satire is used in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show. The data in this research was taken from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyzed the data. Thus, in doing this research, library research was applied in analyzing the data. It took eight episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show aired on February, 21

2017 episode “Floods,” on October, 1 st 2016 episode “Abortion Laws,” on October, 29 th 2017 episode “Forensic Science,” on October, 4 st th 2017 episode “North Korea,” on August, 20 2017 episode “Mental Health,” on August, 13 rd 2016 episode “Scientific Studies” and on November, 12 th 2017 episode “Nuclear Waste,” on May, 8 th 2017 episode “Trump Presidency,” which were downloaded from internet. The data focused on the utterances of the host in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show that consist of Satire. Based on the analysis, there were three types of Satire occurred in the show namely Horation satire, Juvenalian satire and Manippean satire proposed by Abrams theory. From the data obtained, there were seventy one (71) utterances found in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show. It was found 3 types of Satire in this research, there were 46 utterances of Horation satire, 17 utterances of Juvenalian satire and 8 utterances of Manippean satire. The host used irony, parody, comparison and humor in satire to criticize and satirize for the cluster of ideas and people’s behavior occurred in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Talk Show. nd