On blasphemy against Monty Python
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, TV shows Tags: Blasphemy, Monty Python
HT: Tyler Cowen
Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: Seinfeld
“You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level,” Tobia told nj.com. “When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry’s obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramer’s schizoid traits, with Elaine’s inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.”
Seinfeld’s “neat freak” tendencies are well known. The show’s chief protagonist once refused to a kiss a girl who’d brushed her teeth with a toothbrush that had fallen in the toilet. On another occasion he threw out a belt after it touched a urinal.
Meanwhile, Jerry’s nemesis, the vindictive Newman, is “very sick” according to Tobia.
“Newman’s sense of self, his meaning in life, is to ensure that he frustrates Jerry,
via Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters | Stuff.co.nz.
Yes Minister Special Sketch (Christmas at the ministry) – 1982
25 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in TV shows Tags: Yes Minister
HT: Andrew Sheldon
The Larry Sanders Show – Americans can do dry comedy
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders show was on late-night television and has not been repeated for at least 10 years. A great pity. In the same division as Seinfeld as a quality comedy.
This early HBO production was a classy satire set behind the curtain on a late-night talk show, hosted by toothily neurotic Larry (show creator Garry Shandling).
Not only did it popularize spoof chat shows but it kick-started the vogue for celebrities queuing up to play exaggerated versions of themselves in the likes of Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock. Its lead writer Judd Apatow went on to become the king of Hollywood comedy.
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