Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era Book

Foreword David Marc ix

Part 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 3

2 With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush Jeffrey P. Jones 37

3 Tracing the "Fake" Candidate in American Television Comedy Heather Osborne-Thompson 64

Part II Fake News, Real Funny

4 And Now... the News? Mimesis and the Real in The Daily Show Amber Day 85

5 Jon Stewart and The Daily Show: I Thought You Were Going to Be Funny! Joanne Morreale 104

6 Stephen Colbert's Parody of the Postmodern Geoffrey Baym 124

Part III Building in the Critical Rubble: Between Deconstruction and Reconstruction

7 Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire Jonathan Gray 147

8 Speaking "Truth" to Power? Television Satire, Rick Mercer Report, and the Politics of Place and Space Serra Tinic 167

9 Why Mitt Romney Won't Debate a Snowman Henry Jenkins 187

Part IV Shock and Guffaw: The Limits of Satire

10 Good Demo, Bad Taste: South Park as Carnivalesque Satire Ethan Thompson 213

11 In the Wake of "The Nigger Pixie": Dave Chappelle and the Politics of Crossover Comedy Bambi Haggins 233

12 Of Niggas and Citizens: The Boondocks Fans and Differentiated Black American Politics Avi Santo 252

About the Contributors 275

Index 277