Tag: Blackface
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S51 E13: Connor Storrie
We unpack Mr. Fronzi for its ethnic stereotyping and insider humor as well as debate the controversial cut-for-time sketch Tourette’s, and discuss disability representation, audience responsibility, and comedic framing.
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SNL50: The Anniversary Special
We talk about the show’s role in establishing comedy across the 20th and 21st centuries from Word Association to Black Jeopardy, its complicated relationship with representing Blackness and Black humor exemplified in the In Memoriam montage, and how this epic oeuvre can be used to foster conversations in the classroom.
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S49 E18: Dua Lipa
We talk about algorithms and the loss of water cooler conversations in Jerry Seinfeld’s appearance on Weekend Update as The Man Who Did Too Much Press, virtue signaling and slacktivism in Teeny Tiny Statement Pin, and the cognitive correlates of blackface and culture vultures in Good Morning Greenville.
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