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Saturday Night Live in the Classroom

S49 E1: Pete Davidson

Season 49 kicks off with Pete Davidson’s hosting debut. We talk about parody in I’m Just Pete, commodity feminism in Glamgina, and misinterpretations of Blackness in The Original Princes of Comedy: A film by Please Don’t Destroy. Readings include Paul Beatty, Rosalind Gill, and bell hooks.

Listen on Libsyn: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/28366436

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6N8YlHZ6S4ys9WZ43jdc8T?si=yOTrXiYZTw6g9cGYDGJonw

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-pete-davidson-s49e1/id1712886779?i=1000632026481

Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/giahKU–Bhw

Readings and Resources:

Beatty, P. (2008). Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hokum/RFuA323WsLIC

Gill, R. (2011). Supersexualize me. Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader, 278-84. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalind-Gill/publication/228639884_Supersexualize_me_Advertising_and_the_midriffs/links/541482060cf2788c4b35a7b4/Supersexualize-me-Advertising-and-the-midriffs.pdf

hooks, b. (1992). “Eating the other: Desire and resistance.” In Black Looks: Race and Representation, pp. 21–39. Boston: South End Press. https://sites.evergreen.edu/comalt/wp-content/uploads/sites/253/2016/11/eating-the-other.pdf

Kiremidjian, G. D. (1969). The aesthetics of parody. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 28(2), 231-242. https://www.jstor.org/stable/428572

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