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Category: 9.09 – Special Issue: Saturday Night Live

“Weekend Update” and the tradition of new journalism

March 21, 2009 Paul Achter / University of Richmond 3 comments

The decedents of “Weekend Update” proliferate.

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Give Me That Old Time Virality
David Gurney / Northwestern University

March 21, 2009 David M. Gurney / Northwestern

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Who’s Going to Play Michelle Obama?: Saturday Night Live and Its Lack of Women of Color
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Bowling Green State University

March 20, 2009 Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Bowling Green State University 8 comments

A simple dilemma highlights the shows astounding lack of diversity, especially regarding female cast members.

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Pitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster Appeal 
 Alyx Vesey / Independent Scholar

March 20, 2009 Alyx Vesey / University of Alabama 12 comments

A look at Andy Samberg’s role as Saturday Night Live’s resident hipster and geek.

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Gilda Rader and ‘Jewess Jeans’: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television
Bernard M. Timberg / East Carolina University

March 20, 2009 Bernard Timberg / University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 8 comments

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Michael O’Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty
Evan Elkins / University of Texas-Austin

March 20, 2009 Evan Elkins / FLOW staff 5 comments

A look at early Saturday Night Live and the comedy of Michael O’Donoghue.

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‘Using One of its Lifelines’: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?

March 20, 2009 Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson 8 comments

The role of political satire in “rescuing” Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.

Jonathan Gray / Fordham University, Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University, and Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi

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@TomDivon & I are guest editing this special issue on BeReal and platform authenticities for @FlowTV.

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