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In a New AMC Satire, a Sitcom Wife Gets the Last Laugh
Annie Murphy stars in a black comedy that spoofs corny family sitcoms while revealing the darkness behind the bright lights and bad jokes.
In “Kevin Can Himself,” Annie Murphy plays the latest in a long line of knockout sitcom wives married to schlubby guys. But this time, she’s had enough.Credit.Luis Mora for The New York Times
June 9, 2021Updated 1:06 p.m. ET
Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, Valerie Armstrong experienced what she described as “a feminist fit of rage.” So she put that rage into a comedy pilot, a pussy hat in script form.
Published April 15, 2021 at 1:27 PM CDT Listen • 31:34
/ Alfred Martin, Jr. of the University of Iowa is the author of the new book The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom
In the entertainment world some people called the 1990s the Gay 90’s because of the explosion of LGBTQ representation in pop culture. But that representation was largely missing from sitcoms with predominantly Black casts.
Alfred Martin, Jr. has studied this absence. He’s a pop culture expert, an assistant professor of Communications at the University of Iowa and the author of “The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black Cast Sitcom.”