Incongruent Bodies

IF 0.9 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051

Marissa Spada

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Abstract

This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on theories of comic incongruity, I argue that SNL’s American presidents have “incongruent bodies”; that is, they challenge long-held assumptions about how power and leadership are to be visualized and embodied but ultimately maintain the patriarchal status quo. In the case of former candidate Hillary Clinton, however, what makes her incongruent with the role of the presidency is the simple fact of her being a woman. I argue that SNL’s Hillary Clinton characters, played by Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, foreground the basic contradiction of the woman candidate, offering an embodied critique on the gendering of power and leadership in America.

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不一致的身体

本文探讨了《周六夜现场》对总统的印象背后的政治幽默，以及当候选人是女性时，这种幽默的风险如何更高。根据喜剧不协调的理论，我认为《周六夜现场》的美国总统们有“不协调的身体”;也就是说，他们挑战了长期以来关于权力和领导力如何被可视化和具体化的假设，但最终维持了父权制的现状。然而，就前总统候选人希拉里•克林顿(Hillary Clinton)而言，她与总统角色不一致的原因很简单，那就是她是女性。我认为，《周六夜现场》中由艾米·波勒(Amy Poehler)和凯特·麦金农(Kate McKinnon)饰演的希拉里·克林顿(Hillary Clinton)角色突出了这位女性候选人的基本矛盾，对美国权力和领导力的性别化提出了具体的批评。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

90.00%

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期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.