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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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Saturday night live : shaping TV comedy and American culture
Examines \"Saturday Night Live\"'s history, its iconic characters and sketches, and the way it satirizes, parodies, and shapes American culture.
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Strange Bedfellows
It is no coincidence that presidential candidates have been making it a point to add the late-night comedy circuit to the campaign trail in recent years. In 2004, when John Kerry decided it was time to do his first national television interview, he did not choose CBS's60 Minutes, ABC'sNightline,orNBC Nightly News. Kerry picked Comedy Central'sThe Daily Show. When George W. Bush was lagging in the polls, his appearance on theDavid Letterman Showgave him a measurable boost. Candidates for the 2008 presidential election began their late-night bookings almost as soon as they launched their campaigns.
How can this be? The reason is that polls have been consistently finding that a significant number of Americans-and an even larger proportion of those under the age of thirty-get at least some of their \"news\" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. While this trend toward what some have called \"infotainment\" seems to herald the descent of our national discourse-the triumph of entertainment over substance-the reality, according to Russell L. Peterson, is more complex. He explains that this programming is more than a mere replacement for traditional news outlets; it plays its own role in shaping public perception of government and the political process.
From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, from Chevy Chase's spoofing of President Ford onSaturday Night Liveto Stephen Colbert's roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner,Strange Bedfellowsexplores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy. Comparing the mainstream network hosts-Jay, Dave, Conan, and Johnny before them-who have always strived to be \"equal opportunity offenders\" to the newer, edgier crop of comedians on cable networks, Peterson shows how each brand of satire plays off a different level of Americans' frustrations with politics.
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Saturday Night Live and Philosophy
This hilarious cast of star philosophers will make you laugh while you think as they explore the moral conundrums, ridiculous paradoxes, and wild implications of Saturday Night Live Comedian-philosophers from Socrates to Sartre have always prodded and provoked us, critiquing our most sacred institutions and urging us to examine ourselves in the process. In Saturday Night Live and Philosophy, a star-studded cast of philosophers takes a close look at the \"deep thoughts\" beneath the surface of NBC's award-winning late-night variety show and its hosts' zany antics. In this book, philosophy and comedy join forces, just like the Ambiguously Gay Duo, to explore the meaning of life itself through the riffs and beats of the subversive parody that gives the show its razor-sharp wit and undeniable cultural and political significance. Our guest hosts raise some eyebrows with questions like: Is Weekend Update Fake News? Does SNL upset dominant paradigms or trap us in political bubbles? When it comes to SNL, how can we tell the difference between satire, smart-assery, and seriousness? Is the Ladies Man too stupid for moral responsibility? What is the benefit of jokes that cause outrage? The Church Lady has a bad case of moral superiority. How about you? What can Wayne and Garth teach us about living a happy life?
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Sketch Comedy
\"Upon winning the second of three Emmy Awards at this year's ceremonies, in September (2008), Tina Fey, the creator, star, and one of the executive producers and main writers of the sitcom '30 Rock'...said, 'I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.'\" (New Yorker) This article takes an in-depth look at the creative genius of Tina Fey, briefly profiling her career before delving into her latest popular culture contribution, \"30 Rock.\" Details of the show, its cast, and the mastery behind the scenes are provided. \"Fey's intelligence comes across, of course, but it's a kind of managerial intelligence, a high level of competence. That sort of no-nonsense--or very-little-nonsense--approach was appropriate for Fey's on-screen role on 'Saturday Night Live,' as co-anchor of the fake-news segment 'Weekend Update.'\"
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Yes please
The actress best known for her work on \"Parks and Recreation\" and \"Saturday Night Live\" reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her relationship with Tina Fey.
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Cockeyed Optimist
\"Is there a more appealing performer on television than Amy Poehler? Yes, 'appealing' sounds bland and unappreciative, and it's unspecific, but the radiance and the warmth that come from Poehler are general and broad in the best way, and they offer a universal welcome. There's no entrance fee of coolness or hipness for enjoying her humor, and you don't hate yourself afterward...So this brings me, a little uncomfortably, to the show that Poehler is now starring in, 'Parks and Recreation,' which...runs in NBC's Thursday-night comedy block. It was inevitable and fitting that Poehler would get her own show--fitting, but maybe not the best fit.\" (New Yorker) Nancy Franklin reviews the television sitcom \"Parks and Recreation,\" starring Poehler.
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