Bullshit Alert Button

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I don’t want to get too into it, but if you all knew what this woman was saying about me from day one behind the scenes you might understand the fact that I have zero desire to be her friend. ZERO. Friends like that I don’t need! It was also starting to affect my relationship with my sister-in-law Jacqueline, because I was baffled why she would be so close to someone who would spew such vicious, hurtful lies about her family. I think you may see more of that as the show progresses. Harrington, Stephen. 2012. The Uses of Satire: Unorthodox News, Cultural Chaos and the Interrogation of Power. Journalism, 13 (1): 38–52. Boler, Megan and Stephen Turpin. 2008. The Daily Show and Crossfire: Satire and Sincerity as Truth to Power. In Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, ed., Megan Boler. 383–403. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Gray, Jonathan. 2009. Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire. In Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson, eds., Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. 147–66. New York: New York University Press. Harrington, Stephen. 2009a. Chasing Reporters: Infotainment, Intertextuality and Media Satire. 1-19. Paper delivered at the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, 8–10 July, 2009, Brisbane QLD. At: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/26299/ (accessed 9 March 2010).

Robinson, Joanna. 2014. Watch President Obama Fill in for Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Vanity Fair, 9 December 2014. At: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/12/obama-fills-in-for-colbert (accessed 17 November 2015). We suspect that everyone could probably do with a Bullshit Button! Try it out, you'll see how relaxing it can be to interrupt your colleague during the next team meeting and stop him or her from quoting monkey business. Teachers should install the button on their desk and buzz it whenever a pupil comes up with some rubbish. And yes, even on your sofa's armrest, a Bullshit Button should be installed to comment on all the bull shown on TV. Great Fun! van Zoonen, Liesbet. 2005. Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Pop Culture Converge. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

I would love to post a letter I wrote to Danielle way before the cameras started rolling and offered an olive branch, so to speak. I told her that we should be civil, so we could teach our children how grown women should behave. I even gave her a small gift along with the note. Young, Dannagal G. and Lindsay Hoffman. 2012. Acquisition of Current-Events Knowledge from Political Satire Programming: An Experimental Approach. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 20 (5): 290–304. Higgie, Rebecca. 2014. Kynical Dogs and Cynical Masters: Contemporary Satire, Politics and Truth-telling. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Studies, 27 (2): 183–201.

Higgie, Rebecca. 2015. Playful Politicians and Serious Satirists: Comedic and Earnest Interplay in Australian Political Discourse. Comedy Studies, 6 (1): 63–77. Mercea, Dan. 2014. Obama Fills in For Stephen Colbert. CNN, 9 December 2014. At: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/08/politics/obama-on-stephen-colbert-show/ (accessed 17 November 2015). Jones, Jeffrey P. 2010. Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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A similar thing happened later in the interview when Alex gave the DPM thirty seconds to convince him to vote. Not to vote for the Lib Dems, just to vote. For anyone. Heath, Joseph and Andrew Potter. 2006. The Rebel Sell: How the Counterculture Became Consumer Culture. Chichester, UK: Capstone. Montopoli, Brian. 2010. Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000. CBC News, 30 October 2010. At: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html (accessed 1 November 2010). Put an end to all those excuses and obvious lies with the Bullsh*t Button. Let's face it, no office (or indeed home) should be without it. For instance, "my cat's just had puppies" , "the dog ate my homework" , "I have to attend an aunt's funeral", yeah, right, what a coincidence that everyone else that day had the same excuse when there is a football international on!