Kidding: Everyday Life, Disrupted

Kidding: Everyday Life, Disrupted

Blog Article

The American series Kidding displays, across two seasons, a process of mourning.Hijacking the comedy format, this series in which Jim Carrey plays the Floor Mats (Carpet) main character presents aspects of complex television while developing a critique of the ideal everyday life depicted by classic institutions (the Gift cards family, marriage, television itself).The article proposes to analyze the show as an object of grotesque, using the tools of television studies and queer theory, that will highlight its penchant for failure and for dissent.