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THE POST MODERN IRONIC WINK
| Program 05-06-26-A | 
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Right after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, declared "irony is dead." Only a few months later Carter said, with a nudge and a wink, I meant to IRONING is dead - not irony. Next time on the Peabody award-winning program To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll look at the rise of the Age of Irony - wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?
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SEGMENT 1:
Jedediah Purdy is the author of "For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today" and "Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World." He talks with Jim Fleming about irony. Also, TTBOOK producer Veronica Rueckert provides a commentary on irony. And we hear a bit of the ever-ironic William Shatner.
SEGMENT 2:
Another ironic commentary – this time from Los Angeles comic and humor columnist Alan Olifson. Michael Dowse talks with Steve Paulson about his film "It's All Gone Pete Tong," which chronicles the rise and fall of deaf DJ Frankie Wilde. The only trouble is, Wilde never existed.
SEGMENT 3:
David Foster Wallace is one of the leading figures of post modern literature. He tells Jim Fleming that he sees himself as a realist. Among his novels is "Infinite Jest." Also, Douglas Coupland tells Steve Paulson that we need more irony. He says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to "get" irony and the rest take everything at face value and he trashes people like Jedediah Purdy whom he feels need to lighten up.
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Books:
- Jedediah Purdy, For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (Vintage)
- Jedediah Purdy, Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World (Vintage)
- David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories (Little, Brown)
- Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby ( Bloomsbury)
Links:
- Link to the homepage of comic and
humor columnist Alan Olifson:
http://www.olifson.com - Link to the documentary It's All
Gone Pete Tong:
http://www.itsallgonepetetong.com
Music:
- Lucienne Boyer's Parlez Moi D-Amour
off of the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original
Soundtrack Recording on EMI Records. - Afterlife's How Does It Feel? off
of the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original Soundtrack
Recording on EMI Records. - William Shatner's Has Been off of his Has Been CD on Shout! Factory Records.
- The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations
off of the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original Soundtrack
Recording on EMI Records. - Pete Tong & Chris Cox's KU
DA TA off of the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original
Soundtrack Recording on EMI Records. - Jaydee's Plastic Dreams off of
the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original Soundtrack
Recording on EMI Records. - 808 State's Pacific State off
of the It's All Gone Pete Tong Original Soundtrack
Recording on EMI Records. - And, of course, Alanis Morissette's Ironic off
of her Jagged Little Pill CD on Maverick Records.
Distribution dates:
| week of 08/27/2006
- hour 1 week of 06/26/2005 - hour 1 |
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