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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Recommended viewing
As I write this post on the campus of San Francisco State University I wonder who has achieved the most of our esteemed alumni. Is it Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres? Danny "Predator 2" Glover? Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown? Fine choices, but no. I am convinced that the honor of most accomplished SFSU alumni is shared by Vernon Chatman and John Lee. For proof I offer you their television show Wonder Showzen, the first season now released on DVD and the second season premiering this Friday on MTV2.
I've written about the show before but I bring it up again in hopes that some of you will check out the DVD. Wonder Showzen celebrates the uncomfortable mix of the comedic and tragic in everyday life. They go after topics like race, consumerism and war with some of the harshest and best satire that has ever made it on TV. It also pushes the boundaries of what is "comedy" by getting very experimental. The last half of the season finale was just the first half run backwards. Watching the show I think of National Lampoon and SNL writer Michael O'Donoghue's quote: "making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy."
This Salon article has plenty of info on the show and previews the second season, which will have the most cringe-inducing remembrance of 9/11 ever. It's a Salon article so you will have to fight a lion and brave a dark labyrinth to read the article.
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