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SUMMARY:From Milton Berle to David Letterman:  A History of TV Comedy
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DESCRIPTION:From the earliest days of television, making people laugh was 
 one the central goals of TV programmers. Successful radio formats like the
  sitcom and the comedy/variety show moved to television in the late 1940s,
  joined a few years later by the medium’s own innovation, the late night
  comedy talk show. For the next seven decades, these three formats dominat
 ed the airwaves, led by brilliant comedians such as Sid Caesar, Jackie Gle
 ason, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Jerry Seinfeld. This
  presentation will survey the extraordinary landscape of American TV comed
 y, examining how comedy changed from the vaudeville shtick of Milton Berle
  and the slapstick artistry of Lucille Ball to the social satire of Saturd
 ay Night Live and the self-reflexive absurdities of David Letterman and Th
 e Simpsons. Presented by:  BRIAN ROSE is a professor emeritus at Fordham
  University, where he taught for 38 years in the Department of Communicati
 on and Media Studies. He’s written several books on television history a
 nd cultural programming, and conducted more than a hundred Q&A’s wit
 h leading directors, actors, and writers for the Academy of Motion Picture
  Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film
  and Television Arts, and the Directors Guild of America.
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 erman-history-tv-comedy-3779
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