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Stephen Colbert Video Analysis
After watching the Stephen Colbert videos at least for me I got to see what his point was. It is absolutely clear what he wants us, the viewers, to see which is that the jobs that the immigrant farm workers held are not an easy task. At the beginning he thought it would be something easy to do, but after he had a day of real labor he knew he was wrong.
His use of comedy was definitely informative. Not only was he making me laugh, but also it made me pay more attention to what he was saying. He joked on everything he said or did, but he was providing the viewers with information on the topic. That is a smart way of doing it because it attracts more people to watch his videos and at the same time to realize the situation that the immigrants


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