This study analyzes violations and floutings of the four maxims of Grice’s cooperative principle in 10 of Jordan Klepper’s political interviews held at Trump rallies.

The aim is to examine how Klepper violates and flouts the maxims in order to create humor, as well as analyze what are the comedic effects of these floutings and violations.

The results show a total of 13 violations and 14 floutings. The most frequent were the violation of the maxim of relation and the flouting of quality, both sharing an amount of nine occurrences. Klepper gives irrelevant answers and states things he knows to be clearly false. The comedic effect is mainly irony which is a common approach that Klepper uses.

The study also examines generalized conversational implicatures and particularized conversational implicatures. The most frequently used is the particularized type. This means context is required to understand the implied meaning. Background knowledge about the U.S. and its politics are helpful to know in order to recognize and appreciate the jokes made by Klepper.