As Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, John Foster Dulles was often referred to in popular culture as “the most boring… Read More »I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles!
Content warning for for gore and violence! The comedy of horror-comedy, Jonathan L. Crane argues, lies in its ability to self-reference and make ironic… Read More »You’re a Dead Head! A No-Body!
Absurdism, as Thomas Nagel argues, comes from the “conspicuous discrepancy between pretension or aspiration and reality” (718). Absurdist comedy, then, follows the incongruity model, placing… Read More »One Sheep Was Blown Up in the Making of This Film
What’s more camp than dodging the Vietnam draft? 1969’s The Gay Deceivers dares to ask this very question, and its answer leaves little room for… Read More »Look What You’ve Done to My Peonies!
CONTENT WARNING for a Lot of vomit. There is no introduction to this clip better than the one provided by the talking fish at… Read More »Oh Dear, I Have Trodden in Monsieur’s Bucket
A laugh, as Julian Hanich points out in his chapter on the phenomenology of cinematic laughter, doesn’t have to come from finding something funny. It… Read More »Hanich Says… Don’t Flinch
When a couple’s “how they met” story takes 95 minutes to be told, it’s either a case of a couple’s friends trying desperately “not to… Read More »Twelve Years and Three Months
In 2007 SNL had the unenviable job of responding to inflammatory comments made by the then-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, renowned for both denying the… Read More »I Blog (So Far Away)
By the 1960s traffic roundabouts were being constructed throughout the UK and became particularly common in metropolitan London, where they provided a systematic and organized… Read More »Look Kids! A Blog Post!
There is nothing new under the sun, or perhaps, if you subscribe to the ideology of the obnoxious postmodern detective, time is a flat circle.… Read More »Stop! I Could’ve Dropped My Blog Post!