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The Relationship between Television Comedy and Identity
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Critically assess the relationship between television comedy and identity: 'Comedy has potentially a unique ability to be political in that it operates so frequently by transgressing boundaries' (Andrews, 1998) In this essay I will analyze how television comedy is the ideal medium in which to challenge the confines of representation. Comedy is the second most popular genre of program on British television. It tolerates the expression of ideas that are restricted in other contexts, playing 'a critical part in reflecting our national culture and the way we live now' (Mark Thompson, BBC, 2004). In addition, this reflection of society is most deliberately played upon with the representation of gender and race. Both of these representations in comedy tend to form crucial elements from which humour is essentially derived. Gender acts as a comedic tool where social norms can be broken. Furthermore, the changing of contexts can create odd perceptions of typical behaviour,...
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