I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying: 50 Years of Political TV Satire

Everyone’s talking about how Saturday Night Live is supposedly primed with viewers and material now that we’ve got reality TV-level drama playing out in the White House (with a former reality star as the commander-in-chief). How do politics and political comedy interact? Explore the question by watching satire from the past 50 years with host Claire Buss (The Future is 0) and hear from panelists including Stephen Groening (Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media at UW), writer and performer Elicia Sanchez, and comedian Bettina McKelvey.