“…A review of the literature examining the effects of political humor viewership reveals that the majority has focused on younger citizens and that relatively little of this scholarship examines the effect of humor viewership on political participation. For example, virtually all of research prior to the 2000s, mainly from communication scholars, focused on the effects of political humor consumption (editorials, speeches, television, radio) on the attitudes of younger adults (Asher and Sargent, ; Berlo and Kumata, ; Brigham and Giesbrecht, ; Brinkman, ; Ford, ; Ford and Ferguson, ; Gruner, , , , , ; Lull, ; Pokorny and Gruner, ; Powell, , , , ; Priest, ; Priest and Abrahams, ).…”