Copyright by Tyson Sheldon Echelle 2017
Copyright by Tyson Sheldon Echelle 2017 The Dissertation Committee for Tyson Sheldon Echelle certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Sketchy Traditions: Argentinian Sketch Comedy from Popular Theater to Television Committee: Jason Borge, Supervisor Naomi Lindstrom Alexandra Wettlaufer Gabriela Polit Jill Robbins Sketchy Traditions: Argentinian Sketch Comedy from Popular Theater to Television by Tyson Sheldon Echelle, B.A., M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2017 Acknowledgements I wish to thank Fernando García Massini for first showing me a Diego Capusotto sketch one morning in his Montserrat apartment, provoking a belly laugh that ails me still. Also, thanks to my nieces Malena and Olinda, without whom my interest in their home country would be much less visceral. My sister Lena, her husband, and her in-laws Chicho and Alicia, as well as Alicia’s brother Juan Massini, have been of great logistic help during my travels to Argentina as well as providing insightful commentary on the country’s history and current events. My parents, Alice and Anthony, have provided much-needed emotional support and economic assistance as well as intellectual stimulation, and Amelia Tippit has given me bountiful love, technical support, and editorial commentary, as well as serving as an important source of information regarding U.S. politics and history and U.S. television. Additionally, I want to thank the members of my committee, all of whom have encouraged me to follow a path of investigation that until recently would not have been within my department’s scope of study.
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