“Entertain and Subvert”: Fox Television, Satirical Comedy, and The Simpsons
2012In a segment of The Simpsons episode “Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington” (March 2003), we see the Simpson family gathered around the television watching Krusty the Clown, who is running for a seat in Congress, engage in a televised debate with his opponent on the Fox News channel. The Fox News anchor begins the segment by saying, “Welcome to Fox News, your
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Prime-Time Television 'Fable Families': Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences
Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures, 2000(2000). Prime-Time Television 'Fable Families': Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences. Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 105-118.
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Television Satire, Democracy and the Decay of Public Language: John Clarke's Verbal Caricature
Media International Australia, 2006This paper examines the contributions of John Clarke to the field of political satire through his interviews with straight-man Bryan Dawe on ABC TV's The 7.30 Report. Clarke's work represents one of the last vestiges of what was once a vigorous satiric tradition in TV comedy, specifically the practice of political caricature.
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Trump and Satire: America’s Carnivalesque President and His War on Television Comedians
2018This chapter suggests that President Donald Trump exhibits a “carnivalesque” comic persona and behavior which have instigated a war with America’s comedians on television. This study examines Trump’s use of comedy as a means of attack, his reactions to comic attacks, and the wide range of satire undermining him.
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Syria under the Spotlight: Television satire that is revolutionary in form, reformist in content
Arab Media & Society, 2008Picture the scene. We are inside Syria’s monolithic Education Ministry witnessing a highly charged committee meeting, convened to tackle one of the country’s most entrenched problems: overcrowding at state universities. All too willing to apply an absurdly cold logic in the matter, a logic that is likely familiar to Syrian viewers at home, the ...
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Potentials and limits of political satire on network television in Mexico
2023Martin Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
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Appropriating Irony: Conservative Comedy, Trump-Era Satire, and the Politics of Television Humor
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2021Matt Sienkiewicz, Nick Marx
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Between Art, Politics, and Satire: History in Iranian Television Series
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Entertaining politics: satiric television and political engagement
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