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Television and Society

Television and Society. Criteria for Comedy. Humor is an intellectual exercise Humor is human Humor is mechanical There must be an established set of human or social norms Humor violates those norms The audience must perceive those violations are harmless. Humor is an intellectual exercise.

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Television and Society

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  1. Television and Society

  2. Criteria for Comedy • Humor is an intellectual exercise • Humor is human • Humor is mechanical • There must be an established set of human or social norms • Humor violates those norms • The audience must perceive those violations are harmless

  3. Humor is an intellectual exercise

  4. Humor is human

  5. Humor is mechanical

  6. There must be a set of social or human norms that the audience is intimately familiar with

  7. Humor violates the norms

  8. The audience perceives the joke as harmless

  9. The importance of knowing all this

  10. Early Television

  11. Era of Experimentation • Used formats from radio • Musical shows • Interview shows • Dramas • Soap operas • comedies

  12. Typical shows • Musical variety • Talent Scouts • Arthur Godfrey and His Friends • The Fred Waring Show • The Frank Sinatra Show • Small scale sports • Boxing • Wrestling

  13. Live Drama • Ford Theatre • Philco Television Playhouse • Studio One • Kraft Television Theater • Armstrong Circle Theatre • Sponsorships

  14. 12 Angry Men

  15. Leave It to Beaver

  16. Hopalong Cassidy / Roy Rogers / Gene Autry

  17. Wyatt Earp / Bat Masterson / Cheyenne

  18. Gunsmoke – 1955-75

  19. Have Gun, Will Travel

  20. Wanted – Dead or Alive

  21. The Rifleman

  22. Hotel de Paree

  23. Yancy Derringer

  24. Maverick

  25. Bonanza – 1959-73

  26. Joe McCarthy

  27. The 1960s

  28. The Andy Griffith Show – 1960

  29. The Beverly Hillbillies – 1962

  30. Petticoat Junction – 1963

  31. Green Acres – 1965

  32. Camp Runamuck / The Flying Nun Gilligan’s Island

  33. My Mother the Car

  34. The 1970s

  35. The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- 1970

  36. All in the Family – 1971

  37. M*A*S*H – 1972

  38. Walter Cronkite

  39. The Waltons

  40. Three’s Company -- 1977

  41. Barney Miller – 1975

  42. One Day at a Time – 1975

  43. The 1980s

  44. Magnum P.I. / Buck Rogers

  45. Hill Street Blues – 1981

  46. Dallas

  47. The Cosby Show – 1984

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