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Sketch comedy : identity, reflexivity, and American television
\"In Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable-and controversial-moments from the early days of television to the contemporary line-up. Through explorations of sketches from well-known shows such as Saturday Night Live, The State, Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and more, Marx argues that the genre has served as a battleground for the struggle between comedians who are pushing the limits of what is possible on television and network executives who are more mindful of the financial bottom line. Whether creating new catchphrases or transgressing cultural taboos, sketch comedies give voice to marginalized performers and audiences, providing comedians and viewers opportunities to test their own ideas about their place in society, while simultaneously echoing mainstream cultural trends. The result, Marx suggests, is a hilarious and flexible form of identity play unlike anything else in American popular culture and media\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Whole‐Genome Analyses Reveal the Distinct Taxonomic Status of the Hainan Population of Endangered Rucervus eldii and Its Conservation Implications
Eld's deer Rucervus eldii (McClelland, 1842) is an ungulate that lives in tropical lowland forests in several countries of Indochina and Hainan Island of China. Its remaining population is small and scattered, and the species is listed as an Endangered species on the IUCN Red List. The debate over the taxonomic status of the Hainan population has persisted for over a century—as an island‐endemic subspecies R. e. hainanus, or an insular population of the subspecies R. e. siamensis, would have significant conservation implications. And, given the Hainan population had experienced both population bottleneck and multiple translocations in the past, conservation genomics would be a powerful tool to evaluate the genetic impacts of these events. In this study, we used conservation genomics assessment to study population differentiation and genetic diversity of R. e. siamensis in Cambodia and three Eld's deer subpopulations on Hainan Island. Based on the unique genetic profile and demographic analysis, this study corroborated previous studies using genetic markers that the Hainan Eld's deer warrants the taxonomic status of a distinct subspecies. The Hainan population exhibits a reduction in genetic diversity and an increase in the level of inbreeding when compared to the population of Cambodia. The signs of purifying selection were found against homozygous loss‐of‐function mutations to decrease the deleterious burden in the Hainan population. However, there was an accumulation of more deleterious missense mutations. Furthermore, significant differences in genetic diversity and level of inbreeding found among the three Hainan subpopulations indicated population isolation and suboptimal translocation strategies, which calls for urgent, coordinated, and science‐based genetic management to ensure the long‐term viability of the endemic subspecies hainanus. This study provides guidance for the conservation and management of Eld's deer.
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Saturday Night Live and American TV
For over 35 years, \"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!\" has greeted late night-TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting to changing times while staying true to its original vision of performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance, \"Saturday Night Live\" and American TV follows the history of this 36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and media landscape of American television.
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Appropriating Irony
This article examines the rise of right-wing comedy in American media, considering how an academic, economic, and cultural emphasis on left-liberal ironic humor over the last decade has obscured the emergence of conservative forms of televisual satire. The article does so by closely analyzing the industrial and formal traits of Fox News' Watters' World (2017–) and Adult Swim's short-lived but controversial Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace (Cartoon Network, 2016). These programs mimic liberal televisual satire in form but use displaced abjection in order to further degrade already marginalized cultural groups. The right's use of comedic forms heretofore associated with liberalism, we argue, presents an imminent threat to contemporary political discourse.
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A digital media attention diversion improves mood and fear in patients receiving chemotherapy for recurrent gynecologic malignancies: results of a randomized trial
BackgroundRecurrent gynecologic cancer patients experience symptoms that affect psychologic, emotional, social, and physical well-being. Chemotherapy can further exacerbate these symptoms. Poor mood, pain, and fatigue are linked and are detrimental to quality of life. Interventions targeting these symptoms may improve patient-reported outcomes and performance status.ObjectivesTo determine the ability of a humorous digital media attention diversion to improve symptom domains of positive and negative mood during chemotherapy for patients with recurrent gynecologic cancers.Study designThis randomized, crossover clinical trial enrolled women with recurrent gynecologic cancers. Subjects participated over three cycles of chemotherapy. The primary outcome was the change in mood on the validated Positive and Negative Affect Scale-Extended (PANAS-X) instrument, which measures positive and negative affect domains. All subjects completed the PANAS-X after receiving chemotherapy during cycle 1 on study. In atudy arm 1, subjects watched their choice of humorous movies on a digital media device while receiving chemotherapy during cycle 2 on study. They selected from non-humorous movies during cycle 3 on study. In arm 2, the order of movies was reversed. After each cycle, mood, fatigue, and other patient-reported outcomes were assessed for comparison with baseline measurements.ResultsThe target enrollment of 66 subjects was achieved. Subjects watched humorous content for an average of 96.0 min and non-humorous content for an average of 62.5 min. Negative mood improved after exposure to humorous (p=0.017) and non-humorous content (p=0.001). Patient-reported fear also improved after exposure to both humorous (p=0.038) and non-humorous content (p=0.002). Subjects reported higher use of affiliating and self-effacing humor types.ConclusionsOffering patients a choice of digital media during chemotherapy significantly improved negative mood and fear. This was seen with both humorous and non-humorous content. This low-cost and low-risk intervention should be implemented as an attention diversion to improve negative mood and fear for patients receiving chemotherapy.
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Prevalence and Phylogenetic Analysis of Hepatitis B in Captive and Wild-Living Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) in Cambodia
The risk of transmitting novel pathogens from released animals to wild conspecifics is an important consideration for reintroduction initiatives. Apart from infecting humans, hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been detected in nonhuman primates, including captive gibbons. Gibbons that test positive for HBV are removed from reintroduction programs as the presence of infection in wild populations is uncertain. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HBV in wild-living gibbon populations in the southwest and northeast of Cambodia and compare HBV DNA strains collected from these animals with samples from wild-born captive gibbons at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center, Cambodia. We screened HBV infection in blood and stool samples from captive gibbons and stool samples from wild-living gibbons. We sequenced samples with detectable HBV DNA viral load in the HBV reverse transcriptase coding region overlapping with the S-gene. Eleven of twenty-four (46 %) wild-living pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) from the southwest of Cambodia were positive for HBV. Phylogenetic analysis of HBV DNA sequenced from wild and captive gibbons revealed that viral strains were related and different from human strains. The presence of an HBV variant circulating in the wild similar to that found in captive pileated gibbons suggests 1) the strain identified is associated with the species, 2) wild-born captive gibbons positive for this strain became infected prior to captivity, and 3) it might be appropriate to release captive gibbons that test positive for specific serological markers of HBV, provided they are otherwise suitable candidates for reintroduction.
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\The missing link moment\: Web comedy in new media industries
Original Web comedy has played an integral role in attempts to monetize this authence and create new stars, both independently online and in ways complementary to existing media industry practices. These companies, in turn, are increasingly looking to the rising stars of the Web for new properties capable of contributing to multiple revenue streams.While I've enumerated above the aesthetic and industrial forces driving Web comedy offline, the format has also come to perform a very basic and desirable function long prized by the television industry: organizing the authence.8 Star power, production value, and savvy marketing can certainly distinguish a Web comedy property from its online peers, but creating a loyal community around that property (as FunnyorDie has) promises the possibility that authences will follow it wherever it goes. The site, still the dominant player in Web video, has striven for profitability yet sought to uphold its image as a freely accessible platform for everything from grassroots political movements to online video archiving.9 Scholars have noted the conflicting ideologies inYouTube's vacillation between \"community and commerce\" (Snickars and Vonderau 11), arguing that an understanding of the site as only either \"a player in the commercial new media landscape\" or \"a site of vernacular creativity and lawless disruption\" (Burgess and Green 37) precludes discussion of how tension between the two discourses might actually be productive.
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