Saturday night live & American TV

Abstract

1. Introduction: Situating Saturday Night within American Television Culture / Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker Part I: from New York on NBC 2. The Evolution of Saturday Night / Michele Hilmes 3. Live from New York! / Susan Murray 4. Michael O'Donoghue, Experimental Television Comedy, and Saturday Night Live's Authorship / Evan Elkins Part II: Staying Alive on Saturday Night 5. Politics and the Brand: Saturday Night Live's Campaign Season Humor and Cultural Relevance / Jeffrey P. Jones 6. Speaking Too Soon: SNL, 9/11 and the Remaking of American Irony / Matt Sienkiewicz 7. Music: Mediating Musical Performance and Discord on Saturday Night / Alyxandra Vesey 8. Going Backstage: Network Heritage, Industrial Identities, and Reiterated Mediation of Saturday Night Live's Work Worlds / Derek Johnson Part III: Social Politics and Comedic Representation 9: Bringing the Black: Eddie Murphy and African American Humor on Saturday Night / Racquel Gates 10. Is this the Era of the Woman?: SNL's Gender Politics in the New Millennium / Caryn Murphy 11. Reading Fauxbama: 'Honeyface' Performance on / Mary Beltran Part IV: Beyond Saturday Night, Beyond Television 12.Skits Strung Together: Performance, Narrative, and the Sketch Comedy Aesthetic in SNL Films / Nick Marx 13. Andy Samberg's Digital Success Story and Other Myths of the Internet Comedy Club / Ethan Thompson and Ethan Tussey 14. Sketches Gone Viral: From Watercooler Talk to Participatory Comedy / David Gurney Contributors Index