Abstract:<p>The intrinsic consequences of political actions on the
society become more obvious in a developing state like Nigeria. Nigerians have
consequently turned to comedy for relief as the country’s comedy content is
largely cantered on ridiculing inefficiencies of the government. This study,
therefore, attempted to ascertain the utility of comedy using insecurity as a
paradigm. Three (3) politically-induced contemporary comedy shows on YouTube
were analyzed using Sentiment Analysis in Nvivo and a search on … Show more
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