Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
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Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre.Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil' Bush to Chappelle's Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today's class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.
Foreword David Marc ixPart I Post 9/11, Post Modern, of Just Post Network?1 The State of Satire, the Satire of State Jonathan Gray Jeffrey P. Jones Ethan Thompson 32 With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush Jeffrey P. Jones 373 Tracing the "Fake" Candidate in American Television Comedy Heather Osborne-Thompson 64Part II Fake News, Real Funny4 And Now... the News? Mimesis and the Real in The Daily Show Amber Day 855 Jon Stewart and The Daily Show: I Thought You Were Going to Be Funny! Joanne Morreale 1046 Stephen Colbert's Parody of the Postmodern Geoffrey Baym 124Part III Building in the Critical Rubble: Between Deconstruction and Reconstruction7 Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire Jonathan Gray 1478 Speaking "Truth" to Power? Television Satire, Rick Mercer Report, and the Politics of Place and Space Serra Tinic 1679 Why Mitt Romney Won't Debate a Snowman Henry Jenkins 187Part IV Shock and Guffaw: The Limits of Satire10 Good Demo, Bad Taste: South Park as Carnivalesque Satire Ethan Thompson 21311 In the Wake of "The Nigger Pixie": Dave Chappelle and the Politics of Crossover Comedy Bambi Haggins 23312 Of Niggas and Citizens: The Boondocks Fans and Differentiated Black American Politics Avi Santo 252About the Contributors 275Index 277
