Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television

by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
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Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.

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Watching Time on Television

by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.

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