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Meta-Meta-Sketch Comedy?
Bright Lights After Dark — Post-modern sketch comedy is, by nature, repellent. This is by no means a new phenomenon: Monty Python had cops projectile-vomiting into their caps over crunchy frog when most of today's comedians were in diapers (if that). Still, there was always the feeling that Python posed a challenge that was decidedly comedic: if you can laugh at this, you can laugh at just about anything. Social iconoclasm and biological gross-outs aside, they did always seem to have our best interests (our funny bone, as it were) in mind. And now for something completely different. I was a rabid fan of the David Cross/Bob Odenkirk collaboration Mr. ...

Links for the Day (April 6th, 2009)
The House Next Door — 1. Narrative Synthesis. Girish Shambu takes a look at the title subject via the lens of scholar Robert B. Ray and the film Stagecoach. ["What is meant, exactly, by the term "narrative synthesis"? I would say that, in the context of film writing, it names an approach that does two things: (a) it is simultaneously "high-level" (broad in scope--drawing upon a number of specialized subfields within cinema studies) AND "low-level" (paying attention to individual films and their details); and (b) it weaves together a "story" of sorts--just like a good piece of film criticism always "tells a story"--that interests and ...