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  Let’s Bloop This: The Paradox of Authenticity in the Blooper Reel

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  Annie.Berke Los Angeles Review of Books

  September 23, 2021

  Schitt’s Creek, showcased above, begin with the title card: “Unfortunately, we had no fun shooting this ... bloops (or “breaks”). The difference between “blooper reel” and “gag reel” begins to confront this, as ... mediated form of the creative oopsie “real” – at least, while maintaining a straight face? ...
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  Who’s going to believe a talking head?

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  Dylan Trigg University of Memphis

  June 02, 2015

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  rapport between horror and comedy seems to us evident from the beginning of life to the end. Lacan tells ... with a horrifying realization that the body was never unified to begin with.   ...
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  ContraPoints Responds to Nanette: Authenticity and Self-Deprecating Humor

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  Dale Tracy Royal Military College of Canada

  April 21, 2019

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  experience, but to further the argument. ContraPoints begins her video as the embodiment of the dark humor she ...
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  Sex and Screwball Comedy in The Good Wife

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  October 14, 2011

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  it's sexier than (or at least as sexy as) Alicia/Will’s. Either way, it’s a fun and welcome release ...
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  The Absurdity of Nostalgia in the Visual Comedy of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  September 15, 2016

  offered the most glaringly authentic satirical reversal of the pop nostalgia movement...at least until the ...
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  Already Out Queer Celebrity: Kate McKinnon’s Post-Closet Representational Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  March 11, 2020

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  Already Out Queer Celebrity: Kate McKinnon’s Post-Closet Representational Politics queer LGBTQ television comedy celebrity Curator's Note The coming-out-as-media event dates to the 1970-80s, with pronouncements (by turns saucy and poignant) from such ...
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  Queer World Making in Canadian Comedies

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  Jason Edward Black University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  May 22, 2020

  storylines involve the Roses interacting disastrously (at least at first) with the "less ...
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  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  September 22, 2011

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  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style up all night seinfeld NBC fall season comedy arnett Curator's Note I watched Up All Night, a new NBC sitcom starring two supremely talented comic actors (Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph) and another exceptional one, Christina Appl ...
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  Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo

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  Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

  February 12, 2015

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  Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo television race gender comedy amy schumer Curator's Note  Comedian-auteur Amy Schumer, creator of the Comedy Central sketch program Inside Amy Schumer, is both hero and anti-hero. Where female comics are still try ...