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What Are You Missing? Nov 11 – Nov 24
We’ll Really Miss You, Mrs. K
Any time I hear the wind blow it will whisper the name Edna. And so let us part with a love that will echo through the ages.
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Situation Without Comedy
FOX's new animated sitcom Allen Gregory trades heavily in humiliation. Cynthia Chris examines the comedic resonance of this sort of situation in light of recent events.
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Simpsonic Business as Usual?
Last night, the Banksy-directed opening credit sequence “couch gag” for The Simpsons took us into the sweatshop behind the franchise. As executive producer Al Jean noted, “This is what you get when you outsource.”
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Discursive Disintegration
Politically engaged, “discursively integrated” comedy has become quite the buzz topic both within the television industry as well as the academy, with all sorts of attention being paid to programs like South Park, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show etc. Nowhere is this expectation for up-to-the-minute political satire made more apparent than in...
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