1. There's been a fascinating on-going conversation about the role of comedy in the Trump era.
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8. More rare is comedy of resistance which undermines claims of existing order (say, Duck Soup).
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9. I explore this in greater detail here:https://newrepublic.com/article/140510/comedy-wont-defeat-trump-thats-not-point …
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i'm thinking back to horkheimer/adorno's "dialectic of enlightenment." Roadrunner and coyote teaches audience resignation as well.
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The problem with comedy-as-consolation is that Left comedy relies on satire (Daily Show), which presumes an underlying shared exp.
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If Trump can simply lie & say up is down, then satire can't map onto reality & provide us with critical, knowing distance from it.
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