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Picture yourself in an audience witnessing a live comedy performance. You and other crowd members laugh hysterically as various sketches unfold on stage. Celebrity actors lampoon an assortment of social trends and political figures. Sarcasm flows thick, as do impressions, physical comedy, and of course sexual innuendo. Ridiculous costumes, excessive gesturing, and exaggerated speech emphasize familiar features of targeted personalities. Silly dance routines proceed from punch lines while a musical ensemble heightens the festiveness. Overkill abounds, but you keep laughing. A last detail: even though you're enjoying live comedy, more than pure entertainment is taking place. Indeed, careful observers will notice that the amusing scripts and ridiculous drama package serious reflections on society, religion, politics, and human nature. Now, where and when were you? New York, circa 1992? Was it Saturday night? Perhaps. Such silliness does describe Saturday Night Live. But what about the seriousness? Just how philosophical is SNL's brand of comedy? Is it satire? Picture a spectrum. The spectrum represents artistic forms of social/political criticism according to depth. On one end, there'

Author

Southworth, Jason; Tallman, Ruth

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781119538578