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Fall Premieres 2015: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
David Letterman: So Long to Our TV Pal
Bradley Schauer argues that David Letterman’s brilliant late night talk show career would have been a nonstarter in today’s television landscape.
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On Radio: The Influence of Comedy Podcasts on TV Narrative, Production, and Cross-Promotion
The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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The Conflicted Populism of Parks and Recreation
Though widely praised for its political optimism and progressiveness, NBC's Parks and Recreation also expresses a more complex and pessimistic view about the American voting public.
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The Best Show on WFMU: 2000-2013
Some reflections on The Best Show on WFMU as it ends its thirteen-year run.
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Change and Continuity on Saturday Night Live
Despite a rough start to the season, Saturday Night Live continues to be a fascinating case study for understanding American television.
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The Face (and Laugh) that Launched a Thousand Bits
A farewell to Phyllis Diller from a reverent scholar-fan.
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Mediating the Past: Sacred History and Sacrilegious Television Comedy
For viewers too young to remember, moments of common historical importance are increasingly being inflected with the flippant attitude of sick humor.
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]
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Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]
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The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]
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Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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“I Transcend Race, Hombre”: Hegemonic Masculine Whiteness in Eastbound and Down
Eastbound and Down’s primary character Kenny Powers is the ultimate in camp masculinity. Kenny’s character reeks of white masculine power, and as cultural critics, we need to ask how this type of supremacist rhetoric functions in America’s “postracial” political climate.
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Key and Peele: Identity, Shockingly Translated
Is Key and Peele tentatively picking up the mantel of satiric sketch comedy that Chappelle abandoned? Why now?
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On Radio: “Mirth, Music, and Mayhem”: In Praise of The Best Show on WFMU
Broadcast over Jersey City’s listener-supported radio station WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is what happens when many of commercial radio’s most noxious elements—bizarre callers, comedy routines, running gags, and irascible hosts—transform and coalesce into a singularly entertaining program perfectly calibrated for cult attraction.
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Notes on the Laugh Track
The laugh track has persisted through decades of popular suspicion and disdain, but lately it has come to seem newly disreputable.
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