The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

How does comedy influence politics? Does political comedy lead people to be more critical of politicians or just more cynical?

This event will feature The Gregory Brothers, from YouTube and Barely Political fame for their Auto-Tune the News videos, Baratunde Thurston, the web editor of The Onion and co-founder of the blog Jack & Jill Politics, Dan Powell former Associate Producer on The Daily Show, currently working on Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans, and Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life.