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“Mother Daughter Sister Wife”: Gender on Comedy Central

February 27, 2014
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“Mother Daughter Sister Wife”: Gender on Comedy Central

Comedy Central has long courted young men with disconcerting portrayals of women, but several of its programs this spring provide small indications of a different politics of representation.
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Mutants from the Cultural Gene Pool: Reality Parodies on Kroll Show

January 25, 2013
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Mutants from the Cultural Gene Pool: Reality Parodies on <i>Kroll Show</i>

Comedy Central's new sketch comedy program Kroll Show offers an infinite regression of media industry meta-discourses, recreating a dominant reading position that masquerades as oppositional.
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