11W MS1 - TV Comedy

1. Download and work through this revision booklet
2. Make sure you know all the audience pleasures and can link them to Friday Night Dinner and Bad Education
3. Read and remember this (especially the bits in pink)
4. Don't forget you need to know about audience demographics
5. Answer the questions on TV Comedy (from page 11)

TV Comedy: Audience Pleasure

4. (b) Discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15 marks]

The pleasures are:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

Remember to include clear examples from Friday Night Dinner.