1945-1960 Modernism means I Love Lucy
After World war ll television is the new cultural medium, and comedians write about the modern world and fitting in. The new medium is mass marketable, and comedy reflects issues regarding the family, as in the nuclear kind.
1960-2001- Post Modernism
means rebellion.
Social rebellion , Youth Culture, the 1960's-2001 Comedy as Adolescence.Comedy is all about the generations and their relationship and reaction to cultural and societal changes after WWll. The Monty Python clip (below)is an example of the Youth Culture satirizing the older generations and institutions built by the generations of WW1 and ll.
2001-2020. Too early to tell what it means?
Dotcomodernism?
