After a year of celebrations, reflections, and clip shows, Scarlett Johansson hosts the season finale of the 50th season on May 17, 2025 for a record-setting seventh time. We talk about the power of news parody with Local News Stories and Press Junket, as well as the complexity of humorous gaze with Couples at the Bar and food Ethics in Victorian Ladies Who Lunch. We also discuss Mike Myers Elevator Ride and Joke Swap. Readings include reflections on sexist interviews, misogyny and oppositional gazes, and the basics of food ethics. Additional Resources include a clip S31E01 when Kanye West and Mike Myers met backstage at SNL after the infamous Katrina telethon.
Listen on Libsyn: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37336750
Additional Resources
Kanye West and Mike Myers on SNL (2005, Oct 1) https://video.syr.edu/media/t/1_96keb0su
Kanye West and Mike Myers Meet Backstage
(SNL S31E01; Oct 1, 2005)
Readings
Burks, R. (2014, Sep 26). Watch a female cosmonaut respond to sexist questions about her hair during a press conference. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/16570/20140926/watch-a-female-cosmonaut-respond-to-sexist-questions-about-her-hair-during-a-press-conference.htm
Corsbie-Massay, C.L. & Thompson, R.J. (2024), Love It and/or Hate It, Journalism as Entertainment. In N. Bowman (Ed). Entertainment Media and Communication; Handbooks of Communication Science. DeGruyter. degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110792935/html
#CovertheAthlete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol9VhBDKZs0
Duan, N. (2022, Jul 20). NASA engineers thought female astronauts needed a full face of makeup. https://qz.com/quartzy/1180717/nasa-engineers-thought-female-astronauts-needed-a-full-face-of-makeup
Fullerton, J. (2010, Nov 3). George W Bush calls Kanye West’s Katrina attack ‘most disgusting moment in my presidency’. https://www.nme.com/news/music/kanye-west-701-1289018
Hooks, B. (2012). The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators. In Black American Cinema (pp. 288-302). Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203873304-22/oppositional-gaze-black-female-spectators-bell-hooks
Manne, K. (2017). Down girl: The logic of misogyny. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/27451
Sandler, R. L. (2023). Food ethics: the basics. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Food-Ethics-The-Basics/Sandler/p/book/9781032258171
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