Disciplining the Carnivalesque: Chris Farley's Exotic Dance

“I Didn't See It, But I Know What It's About”: The Motion Picture Trailer and Problematic Synecdoche

“…Kimberly Walsh, Elfriede Fürsich, and Bonnie Jefferson, for example, note that overweight men in sitcoms are often paired romantically with thin women who must tolerate and accept the men's ineptness and poor judgments. Moreover, Stephen Gencarella Olbrys finds that Chris Farley's large, male body provokes laughter because it revels in the excess flesh of a clown, who has no voice but only a body for ridicule (250). Likewise, Russell Meeuf describes McCarthy's performances on Saturday Night Live —like her roles in Bridesmaids (2011) and Identity Theft (2013)—as engaging in a “spectacle of obesity as trashiness” (148).…”