Comedy Programs Research Articles

한국 코미디 프로그램 속 다문화 가정의 고정관념 분석 - ‘외국인 며느리 니퉁의 인간 극장’을 중심으로

This study analyzes the stereotypes of multicultural families presented in the Korean comedy program ‘Foreign Daughter-in-Law Nitong’s Human Theater’. To achieve this, six episodes were transcribed, and the interactions and behaviors of the characters were examined to collect and categorize the stereotypes. The analysis revealed that the frequency of speech by the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law Nitong was the highest, reflecting the authoritative position of the mother-in-law and the subordinate role of Nitong. In contrast, the husband's speech frequency was relatively low, indicating his role as a mediator in conflict situations and his lack of direct involvement in household affairs. The analysis of stereotype types identified those related to household labor, family roles, cultural elements, language issues, and appearance and age. Household labor stereotypes were reproduced through the mother-in-law's instructions and Nitong's compliance, emphasizing traditional patriarchal roles, the mother-in-law's authority, and the daughter-in-law's subordinate role. Additionally, cultural elements such as food culture, lifestyle differences, and language issues were found to be sources of conflict, with misunderstandings, conflicts, and pronunciation issues being major factors. Stereotypes related to appearance and age, including evaluations and derogations, were also present. This study elucidates how media forms and reinforces stereotypes about multicultural families, providing valuable insights into the discrimination and inequality faced by multicultural family members in society. It underscores the importance of multicultural education and media literacy, suggesting the need for viewers to critically engage with media. Ultimately, the study contributes to enhancing social inclusivity and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds.

ANALYSIS OF HUMOR LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES FROM MALE AND FEMALE PARTICIPANTS IN THE KOMPAS TV STAND UP COMEDY COMPETITION

Stand Up Comedy Kompas TV is the first single comedy competition event pioneered by Indonesian celebrities, namely Pandji Pragiwaksono, Raditya Dika, Indro Warkop, and Indra Yudhistira, one of the producers and directors of comedy programs at Kompas TV. Not just any comic can appear in this competition (show). The selected comics are the result of selection by the judges so that they can be categorized as the best finalists who of course have undoubted abilities. Stand Up Comedy Kompas TV has broadcast 10 seasons. Uniquely, male participants dominate over female participants. This certainly didn't happen accidentally. Several relevant studies have not raised gender issues in the humorous language techniques of Stand Up Comedy. The aim of this research is to describe the differences in humorous language techniques of male and female participants in the Kompas TV Stand Up Comedy competition. By combining the theories of Berger (1998) and Wijana (2001) with the pragmatic matching method, it is hoped that differences in the humor techniques of male and female participants in the competition can be found. The results showed that the humorous language techniques of male participants that were not used by female participants were (1) infantilism, (2) sexual allusion, (3) repetition, (4) repartee, (5) narcissism, (6) homonyms, ( 7) taboo words, (8) paradoxical figures of speech, (9) exchange of speaking styles, (10) greeting words, and (11) mispronunciations. The female participants' humorous language techniques that were not used by male participants during the audition were (1) role playing, (3) ridicule, (3) roasting, (4) changing words, (5) collocations, and (6) clarification. . From the findings of the use of absurd stories by comic artists, it can be said that the male participants' ability to tell stories outside of logic seems to dominate with the use of this technique by 5 out of 10 male participants in auditioning for SUCI. The language technique of self-deprecation seems to be dominantly used by female comics compared to other humorous language techniques because of the 8 female participants, there are 4 comics who use it.

You can’t do that on television (right now): Strike Force Five, late-night comedy, and audience engagement

ABSTRACT Given declining public trust in mainstream media outlets, late-night comedians are increasingly relied upon as trusted sources of political information. Connections with late-night hosts have taken on a personalized, psychological dimension and have even become a part of media users’ expression of social group identity. Understanding this dynamic, the research presents a thematic textual analysis of the twelve-plus hours of conversation and comic banter between Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver that aired across the twelve-episode run of the Fall 2023 podcast, Strike Force Five. Connecting with viewers during the 2023 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, the podcast presents a personalized view of the life of these five comedians as they dialogue about their families, the early days of their comedy careers, the history of late-night comedy programming, and their unique public friendship despite being cast by the media as competitors in the late-night ratings war. Analyzing the reach and impact of the Strike Force Five podcast is an important part of furthering an understanding of the influence of late-night comedy and political satire on our political life and popular culture.

Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments

AbstractAs a pandemic‐era collaborative writing project undertaken amid rising geopolitical tensions, this article demonstrates understanding humor in contemporary China as an ethnographic project leading toward deep, empathetic knowledge at a time when in‐person fieldwork became difficult. Through deciphering and translating layered meanings “encrypted” in and intentions signaled by humor in a new comedy program launched in 2021, we dive deep into the lively social life in contemporary China. Humor, via “thick description,” offers valuable insights into life in “fieldsites” that were hard to access during the pandemic time, amid political tensions. It provides a unique lens to examine the unspoken but shared sentiments in societies where humor has become a fundamental mode of public expression. It alerts us to existential anxieties in social life, the subtle voices of social critique, and the yearning for empathy. Humor is not only a valuable object for anthropological inquiry but also a vantage point to reflect on ethnographic methodology and epistemology. We examine humor, with its sentimental and ethical potentialities, and through spontaneous collaboration of mutual support, envision new possibilities in anthropological knowledge production.

A study on consumer attitude towards Smoking amongst Males and Females of Gen. Z in Ahmedabad

This research paper provides the valuable insights on the consumer behaviour towards smoking in Ahmedabad by focusing on both gender [ males and females]. We have conducted the survey to gather the insights into habits and awareness related to smoking. This survey involves various types of people like students going school and colleges, office going males and females of Gen. Z. This study involves the main reason of starting smoking are they all have same reason or problem for which they have started.
 The sampling method we have used here stratified sampling technique that ensures covers participants from different socio-economic backgrounds within Ahmedabad. The factors we have taken into consideration are attitudes towards smoking, why it became their habit, and peoples reviews and recommendation for starting campaign or programs related to less consumption of smoking.
 Analysis done that shows that people of 21-25 smoke more because the main reason overall we got is the pressure and stress. The future scope for the research is to reduce the percentage of people who are currently and formally smoking by running a campaign or short and comedy programs.
 This study is not only focused of present situation pf consumer attitude towards smoking but to provide foundation for better future analysis in this field in Ahmedabad city. The outcomes we expected is the percentage of people smoking should reduced to low they understand the harmfulness behind smoking and stop it.

‘They know my face’: Surveillance Comedy in Scot Squad

This article examines how surveillance is represented as a means of controlling and managing people in the BBC comedy programme Scot Squad (BBC One Scotland 2014–17; BBC Scotland 2019–). Scot Squad parodies the conventions and aesthetics of the docusoap, specifically the reality crime variety, aligning it with generic frameworks such as mockumentary and comedy vérité. Using Hutcheson's definition of parody, namely, a text that imitates an earlier original text with a crucial difference, I argue that Scot Squad questions the legitimacy and efficacy of a range of surveillance mechanisms, from CCTV to the confession to the observational documentary itself. It does so through its comic narratives but also its adoption of a mock docusoap aesthetic. However, despite its critiquing of surveillance culture, Scot Squad's deployment of these representational and aesthetic tropes in a comedic context arguably helps to normalise and domesticate surveillance behaviours.

“It’s my favorite kind of cake. Gigantic.”: healthism, postfeminist disruptions, and rhetorical “Othering” in The Mindy Project

ABSTRACT This article examines the romantic situation comedy program The Mindy Project as a conventional site where popular discourse about healthism appears. Despite a woman of color as the lead actor in the postfeminist television series, the rhetorics of healthism in The Mindy Project nevertheless strengthen postfeminist thinking and disguise dominant logics of racism and sexism. The series moralizes health to “other” women of color using three rhetorical strategies: (1) the representation of model minority women vis-à-vis health, (2) the white savior narrative in an era of healthism, and (3) the gendered/raced nature of negative role modeling. Since healthist rhetorics uphold Dr. Mindy Lahiri as both a threat to and reinforcer of white supremacist and anti-Asian ideology, this analysis has important implications for how women of color perceive themselves in relation to their health choices. The essay also demonstrates how healthism in The Mindy Project invites new considerations of the model minority trope that is embodied by Asian and Asian American television characters acting in medical professional roles.

한국 코미디 프로그램의 웃음 생산 방식 연구

This study analyzed the laugh-inducing materials and laugh-inducing factors of <Comedy Big League>, the only open-air comedy program currently available in Korea, in order to examine the laugh production method of Korean comedy programs.
 As a result, <Comedy Big League> would use external materials usually such as appearance and body as well as primary colors such as excrement, farts, and sexuality to compose the conte, and it has been confirmed that it was biased toward ‘disgusting’ forced laughter rather than healthy laughter that was fun.
 In addition, it would focus on superiority laughter by setting up a group of victims based on appearance or couple through a three-person relationship and making them a laughing stock.
 Considering the above analysis results, in order for a comedy program to play a role as a resting place or an alternative space, it would be necessary to refrain from one-dimensional and primary color laughter and to think about various materials and elements of laughter in order to improve the quality of the program.

현대중국어 유머 언어의 인지적 분석

This paper analyzes the relationship between the humor mechanism and figurative language of the comedy program <Talk Show Conference>, which is very popular in China, focusing on rhetorical techniques. Humor is a kind of language play, but it is also closely related to society and culture. As much as the content of speech is important, the effect of humor is more prominent depending on the environment in which speech is made, because the social and cultural background acts as a decoding code for us to understand humor. As a result of analyzing the types of humor in <Talk Show Conference>, the fact that there was a lot of satire and philosophical humor throughout seasons 1 to 4 would be a proof that popular culture is closely related to society. The popularity of the program is very meaningful in that humor exists at the intersection of society, culture and language. As a result of analyzing the rhetoric of 111 texts, focusing on satire and philosophical humor, it was confirmed that 'figurative language' was used a lot among the humor languages of <Talk Show Conference>. Also, it was interesting that metaphor, not exaggeration, accounted for the most weight among them.

The Clothes Maketh the Cult

The Clothes Maketh the Cult

That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

An Analysis of Television Satire on Kiky Saputri’s Roasting in Lapor Pak!

Humor has always been and will remain to be part of the political landscape, even though it may take a temporary break from time to time. The range of political humor is immense, including roasting comedy. In general, past research has succeeded in showing the importance of roasting comedy and how it employs the figure of speech. The problem is although the roasting is broadcast on national television, none of them has examined it using the theory of television satire. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the presupposition of roasting comedy and to study the roasting comedy by using the heuristic structures of television satire, which include: space, target, rhetoric, media, and time. The writers used qualitative methods to analyze the data using critical discourse analysis (CDA). This study used Kiky Saputri’s roasting video of DKI Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan in Lapor Pak! comedy program. The video was taken from the YouTube account Trans7 Official entitled “Kiky ROASTING Anies Baswedan, Pasukan Auto Jantungan! | LAPOR PAK! (09/11/21) Part 4”. This program was selected for its popularity and has won the Indonesian Television Award (ITA) 2021 in the most popular non-drama primetime program category. Among the program's episodes, this episode has become viral with more than 6.8 million views and was widely published in major national news portals. From the analysis, it can be concluded that Kiky Saputri’s roasting comedy has a specific pattern. Furthermore, because the Lapor Pak! program fulfilled Jones' heuristic structure, Kiky Saputri's roasting Anies Baswedan attracted much attention.

Is It Advantageous to Be First? Evidence from a TV Comedy Program

Is It Advantageous to Be First? Evidence from a TV Comedy Program

The “First Great Purge” of American Television Programming: Understanding How and Why Popular Television Changed So Dramatically from the 1950s to the 1960s

Though “purge” may seem a rather dramatic choice of terms to refer to a drastic shift in the overall nature of network television programming in the United States, it has long been used by media scholars, notably in reference to “The Great Rural Purge of 1971”, when CBS suddenly decided to cancel all of its most popular, rural-based sitcoms and variety shows in exchange for a new lineup of hard-hitting, urban-based sitcoms that leaned left and dealt unapologetically with the most burning social issues of the day. This study, however, hopes to show that this shift was in fact not the first big “purge” but the second, the first having occurred circa 1957 and having moved in the exact opposite direction. One of the great misconceptions about network television is indeed that it was very conservative at its onset and grew steadily more progressive and inclusive over the decades, for pre-1957 network television and especially its comedy programs – those of the first era of the Golden Age of Television, as it were – were remarkably avant-garde and politically incorrect for their time. Anti-establishment humor, budding feminist themes (with independent women both on screen and in the writing room), racial and ethnic diversity, in-your-face insolence and transgressional humor – all of these progressive topics were showcased in very urban settings before that first “purge” erased those gains and reset the U.S. TV landscape as white, patriarchal, rural, conservative and harmlessly escapist. This study will not only discuss those breakthrough sitcoms of the early 1950s themselves, but, just as importantly, it will trace the many factors that led to that first great shift – a vast confluence of decisions and incidents that would lead to what could be dubbed “The Great Urban Purge of 1957”.

The challenges of assessing the impact of a comedy programme aimed at improving the mental well-being of young people

Assessing the impact of community-based programmes presents many challenges. One difficulty encountered is how to develop appropriate research methods to capture the impact of the work while also meeting the demands of external funders. For almost two decades, the charity organisation The Comedy Trust (TCT) have attempted to navigate these challenges. In 2018, TCT had the opportunity to work with a university-based researcher to develop their approaches to research. We aimed to explore what happens when you move away from quantifiable predetermined methods to take a more participatory approach to work alongside the participants of the programme. We decided to focus on their Feeling Funny Youth programme, which is aimed at young people to support their mental health and well-being. This paper is a case study of how the programme worked with a group of young people based within a youth organisation. In this paper, we offer a comparison of the standardised tool adopted by TCT with the development of more creative and participatory methods developed in collaboration with young people who participated in the programme. We offer an insight into what can be gained by adopting more creative and participatory methods to capture the experiences of young people, as this enabled us to really hear the important messages they want to share.

Implication of Conversation in Interactive Dialogue of Public Eyes in Trans 7

The phenomenon of implicature is also found in many television programs, such as talk shows, comedy programs, and programs with the concept of motivating listeners or viewers . This research is only about the implicatures of conversation in the interactive dialogue of mata najwa with public officials at Trans7. The problem in this research is how is the function of conversational implicature in the interactive dialogue of Mata Najwa in Trans7. The goal to be achieved in this study is to describe how the function of conversational implicatures in the interactive dialogue between Mata Najwa and Public Officials in Trans7. This research is a research with descriptive qualitative method . Data collection is done by recording and note-taking techniques. Data analysis was carried out through several procedures: (1) data reduction (data selection and data coding), (2) data presentation, and (3) conclusion drawing and data verification . Based on the results of data analysis and discussion, the conclusion of this study the researchers found the function of conversational implicatures in the interactive dialogue of Mata Najwa Trans7 with public officials. The four implicature functions in the form of speech acts are the conversational implicature function in representative speech, the conversational implicature function in commissive speech, the conversational implicature function in directive speech, and conversational implicature in expressive speech. In addition, the researcher also found the meanings of conversational implicatures contained in Mata Najwa Trans7's interactive dialogue with public officials, there were (17) seventeen implicature intentions. These purposes include: 1) stating, 2) explaining, 3) speculating, 4) showing, 5) informing, 6) admitting, 7) giving testimony, 8) reporting, 9) refusing, 10) inviting, 11) urged, 12) suggested, 13) forbade, 14) pleaded, 15) criticized, 16) blamed, 17) insinuated. The most common conversational implicatures in Mata Najwa Trans7's interactive dialogue are conversational implicatures in the representative speech function with a total of 26 utterances. The meaning that appears the most is the intention ( state ).

A Script-based Analysis of Verbal Humor in the American and Egyptian Stand-up Comedy: A Contrastive Study

This study explores the phenomenon of verbal humor and its relationship with stand-up comedy shows. In addition, it seeks to discover the basic role of verbal humor and the analysis of comic examples and their composition, as well as their objectivity. This study applies the model of the theory of comic texts; especially the Incongruity theory by Kant (1790) and the Semantic-based script theory of humor by Raskin, (1985), in order to highlight some joke techniques such as repetition, discourse markers, pauses, audience interaction, pantomime and mimics. This study also addresses the differences between American and Egyptian stand-up comedy programs such as Hot and Fluffy (2007) and I’m not Fat I’m Fluffy (2009) by Gabriel Iglesias and the Stand-up Show (2012) by the Egyptian comedian Hamdy El-Merghany. The study explores the cynical role of verbal humor in stand-up comedy. The comparison between Gabriel Iglesias and Hamdy El-Merghany shows that both use punchlines and joke techniques. However, each of them excels in a particular element rather than the other. Iglesias excels in using joke techniques, while El-Merghany excels in delivering punchlines. Therefore, their performances are totally different.

We Like the Boyfriend! The Changing Nature of Political Comedy, COVID-19, and Interview Conversations with Governor Andrew Cuomo

ABSTRACT Political comedy has seen considerable upheaval during the COVID-19 era. Broadcasting from home—or not at all—or back in an audience-less studio, comedians have adjusted both the tenor and the content of their programs to reflect the current political climate and public health crisis. Focusing on interviews with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo across a range of late-night comedy programs during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (April – July 2020), the textual analysis explores how these conversations reflect a more serious and personality-driven political comedy reality. At the same time, these interview conversations highlight three key elements central to research on political comedy and satire: (1) the discursive integration and mixed blend of news and entertainment in political comedy programming, (2) the balance between hedonic and eudaimonic motivations that drives comedy creation and viewer selection, and (3) the need for comedy to satisfy emotional gratifications and manage mood.

CREATIVE TEAM STRATEGY MAINTAINING RATING AND SHARE IN THE OPERA VAN JAVA (OVJ) PROGRAM IN TRANS 7

ABSTRACT The development of the mass media industry in Indonesia makes a variety of quality programs, the information conveyed is a necessity to help the public in knowing information is happening around them. Therefore the information presented by the media must be true and useful for the wider community. Television stations broadcast programs with a variety of interesting formats, both in the form of drama programs, non-drama programs, and news programs. The characteristics of television can display images and sound to be the main factor and every television station has many programs with various formats, one of them is comedy program. Television ratings have a very long history, so television stations present programs that are very diverse and interesting. Especially programs with comedy formats such as one of the trans 7 television stations that present Opera Van Java. By adapting traditional forms of wayang performances that are packed in a more modern way, by bringing up stories / phenomena in the community. The aim is to find out the creative team's strategy to maintain rating and share in the opera van java program in trance 7. The qualitative research methodology with morrisan theory is to analyze the results in theory and to fully explain industry competition to influence the audience with triangulation, interview and observation techniques. The conclusion of applying the SWOT theory model is about the strengths and weaknesses of the opera van java program on the company's internal conditions and about the opportunities and threats facing the company.

Violation of the Conversational Maxims in the Humorous Utterances in Comedy Program ‘The East’

This study is conducted in order to reveal the violated maxims in the humorous utterances and the implicature of the maxim violations in NET comedy program ‘The East’, from a discourse analysis point of view. The writer analyzes the types of maxims that are violated found in the humorous utterances in episode 397 entitled ‘Ribet Milih Tempat Kerja Baru’ (Complication in choosing a workplace) of the comedy program ‘The East’. This study is conducted by using a descriptive-qualitative approach, aimed to create a description from the perspectives or experiences of the writer. The findings reveal there are totally 26 (twenty-six) violations, each with its implied meaning in the episode of the program. Among the four maxims, the most frequent occurrence is the violation of maxim of Quality with 11 occurrences. Key words: Cooperative Principle, violation of conversational maxims, implicature