Tag: Gender Feminism
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S49 E13: Sydney Sweeney
We talk about the paradox of femininity and the rhetoric of “natural” in Woman Aging Gracefully, the rapid fire “seen here” jokes at Mitch McConnell’s expense on Weekend Update, generational differences in media use and the complexity of information online in Detectives, and the mechanization of art in AirBnB Design Commercial.
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S49 E8 Kate McKinnon
We discuss Kate’s unique brand of corporeal comedy in North Pole News, the light and heavy interpretation of distraction of Yankee Swap, the implicit and explicit feminism in Tampon Farm and Rich Auntie with no Kids (as well as Gifts from Mom), and ethics of community expectations in the now-iconic Joke Swap.
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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.
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