Satire TV : Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (298 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART I: Post 9/11, Post Modern, or Just Post Network? -- 1 The State of Satire, the Satire of State -- 2 With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from: Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush -- 3 Tracing the "Fake" Candidate in American Television Comedy -- PART II: Fake News, Real Funny -- 4 And Now . . . the News? Mimesis and the Real in The Daily Show -- 5 Jon Stewart and The Daily Show: I Thought You Were Going to Be Funny! -- 6 Stephen Colbert's Parody of the Postmodern -- PART III: Building in the Critical Rubble: Between Deconstruction and Reconstruction -- 7 Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire -- 8 Speaking "Truth" to Power? Television Satire, Rick Mercer Report, and the Politics of Place and Space -- 9 Why Mitt Romney Won't Debate a Snowman -- PART IV: Shock and Guffaw: The Limits of Satire -- 10 Good Demo, Bad Taste: South Park as Carnivalesque Satire -- 11 In the Wake of "The Nigger Pixie": Dave Chappelle and the Politics of Crossover Comedy -- 12 Of Niggas and Citizens: The Boondocks Fans and Differentiated Black American Politics -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Television in politics-United States. Television and politics-United States. Television talk shows-United States. Political satire, American.