Television expert Bob Thompson told Boston Public Radio on Monday even amid political unrest, there is always a place for comedy when done right.
Sherman's Showcase, a parody variety show on IFC, ran a special originally scheduled to commemorate Black History Month, but morphed into a Juneteenth special.
"This episode from a couple of days ago is now one of my four favorite Juneteenth episodes of television of all time," he said. "What's unique about this is it's a comedy special that was shot before the whole George Floyd protests, so it's happily going on doing these goofy little sketches and all the rest of it and we're still in the middle of this massive consciousness-raising period ... it's retroactively funny."
Bob Thompson is a founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Cultureand a trustee professor of television and popular culture at Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
