Nick Marx is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is editor (with Matt Sienkiewicz and Ron Becker) of Saturday Night Live and American TV and (with Matt Sienkiewicz) The Comedy Studies Reader.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sketch Comedy and Reflexive Flexibility1. From Radio Voices to Variety Choices: The Colgate Comedy Hour and Sketch Comedy in Early Television2. "and You're Not": Saturday Night Live in the Network Era and Beyond3. Brand X: MTV's The State and Generation X in the Multi-Channel Transition4. Sketch Comedy's Identity (Post-)Politics: Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and Comedy Central in the Post-Network EraConclusion: Sketch Comedy and Cultural CohesionBibliographyIndex

"An excellent study of a long-neglected area in television/media studies and is part of a larger turn toward the centrality of comedy in post-war U.S. culture." Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University"—review"A stalwart of television since its earliest days, sketch comedy finally gets the in-depth critical attention it deserves. Nick Marx shows how sketch comedy has fit (and been constrained by) TV's industrial contexts, from live variety shows in its earliest days to movement across media in the era of multiple platforms. These case studies not only chart sketch comedy's past, they provide the theoretical and analytical tools to consider its future."—Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, blurb

Nick Marx is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is editor (with Matt Sienkiewicz and Ron Becker) of Saturday Night Live and American TV and (with Matt Sienkiewicz) The Comedy Studies Reader.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sketch Comedy and Reflexive Flexibility1. From Radio Voices to Variety Choices: The Colgate Comedy Hour and Sketch Comedy in Early Television2. "and You're Not": Saturday Night Live in the Network Era and Beyond3. Brand X: MTV's The State and Generation X in the Multi-Channel Transition4. Sketch Comedy's Identity (Post-)Politics: Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and Comedy Central in the Post-Network EraConclusion: Sketch Comedy and Cultural CohesionBibliographyIndex

"An excellent study of a long-neglected area in television/media studies and is part of a larger turn toward the centrality of comedy in post-war U.S. culture." Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University"—review"A stalwart of television since its earliest days, sketch comedy finally gets the in-depth critical attention it deserves. Nick Marx shows how sketch comedy has fit (and been constrained by) TV's industrial contexts, from live variety shows in its earliest days to movement across media in the era of multiple platforms. These case studies not only chart sketch comedy's past, they provide the theoretical and analytical tools to consider its future."—Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, blurb

Nick Marx is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is editor (with Matt Sienkiewicz and Ron Becker) of Saturday Night Live and American TV and (with Matt Sienkiewicz) The Comedy Studies Reader.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sketch Comedy and Reflexive Flexibility1. From Radio Voices to Variety Choices: The Colgate Comedy Hour and Sketch Comedy in Early Television2. "and You're Not": Saturday Night Live in the Network Era and Beyond3. Brand X: MTV's The State and Generation X in the Multi-Channel Transition4. Sketch Comedy's Identity (Post-)Politics: Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and Comedy Central in the Post-Network EraConclusion: Sketch Comedy and Cultural CohesionBibliographyIndex

"An excellent study of a long-neglected area in television/media studies and is part of a larger turn toward the centrality of comedy in post-war U.S. culture." Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University"—review"A stalwart of television since its earliest days, sketch comedy finally gets the in-depth critical attention it deserves. Nick Marx shows how sketch comedy has fit (and been constrained by) TV's industrial contexts, from live variety shows in its earliest days to movement across media in the era of multiple platforms. These case studies not only chart sketch comedy's past, they provide the theoretical and analytical tools to consider its future."—Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, blurb