Historically, in the last decades, political information in Basque Country, a political region from Spain, has been polarized and guided by seriouness patterns, marked by the terrorist experience of ETA, so that during that time it has been very difficult to find out any kind of humorous activity in public life, both political jokes or any other formats. However, in last year the situation has changed, and the proof is the existence of some humour programmes on basque public radio and television, such as Vaya Semanita, which has achieved high audience ratings since it was launched in 2003. The hypothesis of this work is that the success of this programme in the Basque Country means the triumph of a particular political discourse, relaxing y seemingly moderating one. To test this hypothesis, the contents of the first two seasons of this program (2003-2005) have been analyzed through focus groups, to see the impact of the program and how people interpret this. The final results show that, thanks to this humorous attitude while “informing” about basque politics, this infotaintment program succeeded because it reinforced some social stereotypes about basque politics, especially those that were shared by the majority of the population. Besides, these comic stereotypes helped to put radical and serious political discourses in ridiculous and minority positions.
