![]() Sort of the reverse of the book “Black Like Me,” where a white man went undercover as a black man in the South. Eddie Murphy was guest hosting, and in this sketch, he gets made-up as a white man and goes undercover as a white man. This is a sketch from an episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1984. So then, second on the list, is sort of a parody of participatory journalism. It’s a counter-culture figure stepping into something that feels timeless and intentionally old-fashioned and looking to upset the apple cart.Įddie Murphy, “Saturday Night Live: White Like Me” It’s hilarious, and it’s a statement about how somebody in the 1960s was looking at an old-fashioned convention. ![]() What ends up happening is that he becomes a bigger monster than anybody that he’s there to observe, dragging poor Ralph Steadman along for the ride. ![]() His mission was to mix in with them and to find out what that lifestyle’s like from the inside. And, he knew what he was going to find there: outdated southern jerks, rich and drunk human monsters. Hunter and Ralph Steadman, his longtime illustrator -this was the first time that they worked together – went down to cover the Kentucky Derby. Thompson. I am actually going to choose an article that he wrote in 1970 called “ The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.” Thompson, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved”įor a list like this, you have got to start with one of the great participatory journalists, Hunter S. So, here’s a list of characters, real people and fictional characters, who also throw themselves into unusual situations and make themselves human guinea pigs. Instead, he reviews life experiences that are suggested to him by his viewers, whether it’s “What’s it like to get addicted to drugs?” or “What’s it like to have road rage?” or something incredibly dumb, like “What it’s like to eat fifteen pancakes?” Whatever it is, he will take it seriously and he will do it full-out.įorrest MacNeil belongs to the great tradition of people trying to immerse themselves in an experience and report on it from within. He’s a reviewer, but he doesn’t review food or books or movies… ![]() I am the star of a show on Comedy Central called “ Review,” which is a show about a guy named Forrest MacNeil. ![]()
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