Tag: Socioeconomic Class
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S50 E17: Jon Hamm
We discuss satirizing socioeconomic inequality in Check to Check Business News, civil disobedience with Emil Wakim on American Patriotism, and the complexity of roasting and comedy writing via Guess! The Correct! Answer!, Gay Parents, and The White Potus.
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S50 E12: Timothée Chalamet
Fan favorites like SmokeCheddaThaAssGetta and Tiny Horse were absent In Chalamet’s third time hosting. We discuss Johnson’s ability to impersonate Trump’s haughty cruelty in Founding Fathers Cold Open, the role of AI in interpersonal relationships in AI Software, and the power of intra Black conversations in Giselle, A Concerned Businesswoman.
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S50 E03: Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande already looks like a 5-timer in her second time hosting. We discuss the struggle for unionization with Monica: A Happy Amazon Employee and magnifying the absurdities of history in Castrati, as well learning and to lose and the relationship between competition and cooperation in Charades with Mom.
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S49 E20: Jake Gyllenhaal
We discuss Mulvey’s Male Gaze and Kracauer’s Mass Ornament in Beautiful Girls, unfair labor practices and genocide in Fast Fashion Ad, and humans as props in Weekend Update Joke Swap.
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S49 E10: Dakota Johnson
In Dakota Johnson’s second crack at hosting SNL, we talk about socioeconomic- and race-based othering in Home Movies, black friends and black-up bands with Justin Timberlake’s musical performance of Sanctified, and the long history of the Dozens in Roast, a film by Please Don’t Destroy.
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