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Pandemic, Parody, Politics, and Comedy in the Era of Coronavirus POLITICS, AND COMEDYFOOD IN THE FORERA OF AFTERTHOUGHT CORONAVIRUS, Ogbu Journal of COMMUNITY SAFETY & WELL-BEING “She completely twisted the body language”: Pandemic, parody, politics, and comedy in the era of coronavirus Oluchi Gloria Ogbu* INTRODUCTION against ingesting cleaning products and the harm in those suggestions (Valinski, 2020; Reuters, 2020). The outbreak of the infectious coronavirus disease known as Consequently, #disinfectant became a Twitter trend, COVID-19 has grown into a global pandemic. Consequently, a generating a lot of news, debates, conflicts, and comic relief. public health emergency was declared on January 30 (WHO, The consequences of the pandemic lockdown include an 2020). The virus has affected more than 200 countries result- increase in the use of social media platforms such as Twitter ing in over four million cases and close to 300,000 deaths and TikTok, a video-sharing app. Since the lockdown, TikTok worldwide to date (WHO, n.d). Political leaders around the has become a popular platform through which videos are world have used daily press briefings to provide coronavirus being shared on other social media networks such as Twitter, updates to the public. This article explores how two female creating new celebrities amid the pandemic. Also, there is an comedians have created parodies from comments made dur- increase in the number of users who see the videos as a viable ing press briefings of President Trump of the United States means to keep busy and stay sane in an environment filled and Governor Cuomo of New York State to the delight and with unease and concern (Kale, 2020; Bhatt, 2020). Two female entertainment of some people and the disgruntlement of oth- comedians have used the contents from President Trump’s ers. This article further examines how Twitter users interacted and Governor Cuomo’s daily briefings on coronavirus for hu- humorously and, to an extent, politically to these parodies. mour skits created with the TikTok app. The pandemic-related At one of his coronavirus press briefings, the President of comedies created by Sarah Cooper, who describes herself on the United States spoke about exploring the potential of inject- her Twitter account as a writer, comedian, and author based ing disinfectant and light into the body as possible cures for in Brooklyn NY, and Maria DeCotis, another New York-based the coronavirus disease (MSNBC, 2020; NBC Politics, 2020). comedian, have been retweeted by thousands of people. Although, in a later statement, the President said his comments The parodies by these two comedians have produced many had been made sarcastically (Dale, 2020; Timm, 2020), whether comments from those who find the videos entertaining and they were meant as sarcasm or not, they generated new con- emotionally fulfilling and a few from those who do not see flicts and fuelled existing political tensions, such as providing the humour in them. For example, Sarah Cooper’s TikTok a basis for political opponents to call out the President’s han- video posted on Twitter which she tagged How to medical dling of the pandemic, with House speaker Pelosi suggesting has already gathered more than 16 million views, with over on Twitter that the President’s comments reflect his and his 400,000 likes and 16,000 comments, as well as more than 140 administration’s thoughts about science. Her tweet reads, “the retweets. These incidents show how comedy is becoming situation we are in today is a result of Republicans’ rejection viral through social media (Jones, 2019). The coronavirus of science and their duty to govern” (Pelosi, 2020). Also, the pandemic has had many life-changing impacts on people, former Vice-President of the United States and the Democrat’s on comedy and humour, and also on those interacting with leading presidential candidate tweeted “I can’t believe I have skits produced during this period. to say this, but please don’t drink bleach” (Biden, 2020). This comment made by President Trump’s main political opponent Parody, Culture, and Politics in the November 2020 presidential election has already gath- Apart from their role as entertainment, comedy and humour ered more than 1.5 million likes on Twitter to date. Also, as a have been used as a dissident tactic against oppression result of the President’s musings about disinfectants, producers (Cheurfa, 2019), a call for action, and a means to persuasively of disinfectants and public health officials have spoken out disseminate information to the public, (Becker & Bode, 2017; Correspondence to: Oluchi Gloria Ogbu, Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace & Justice at St. Paul’s College. 252-70 Dysart Road Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6. E-mail: [email protected] To cite: Ogbu, O. G. (2020). “She completely twisted the body language”: Pandemic, parody, politics, and comedy in the era of coronavirus. Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 5(2), 82-86. https://doi.org/10.35502/jcswb.138 © Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected]. Published by SG Publishing Inc. Official publication of the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance. Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, Vol 5(2), July 2020 | journalcswb.ca | @JournalCSWB 82 POLITICS, AND COMEDY IN THE ERA OF CORONAVIRUS, Ogbu Jennings, Bramlett, & Warner, 2019). Studies show that and a writing board, and her parody also includes misspelling comedy has become an important means of learning, made hydroxychloroquine and sniffing a marker (Cooper, 2020). In more valuable and persuasive when it is processed effortfully all these parodies, the words uttered by Cuomo and Trump (Jennings et al., 2019). Their use as a strategy for discussing were not altered by Cooper and DeCotis in any way. social and political issues does not take away from the thera- Sarah Cooper’s most popular video on Twitter to date peutic value of comedy and humour in that they provide a is the one tagged How to medical which has received more sense of belonging and connection, thus serving as a form than 16 million views thus far. Cooper’s facial expressions of cultural intervention for individuals within a social group have incited laughter and criticism against the President. The (MacRury, 2012). Another advantage of comic relief is the viral impact of this parody validates the view that comedy positive element of producing laughter, which can improve as a means of entertainment and sharing information with physical and mental well-being, such as promoting healthy the public is made more effective by the use of social media aging (Berk, 2015). (Jones, 2019; Jennings et al., 2019). Through her body and facial Political satire can be entertaining, educational, and a expressions, Cooper creates entertainment, but the absurdity persuasive method to move the public into action (Becker & of some of the President’s speech is also made more obvious Bode, 2017). As a form of political humour, parody can serve in Copper’s parodies (Cooper, 2020a, 2020b). This also sup- different functions: it can be an important feature that sup- ports the argument that parodies can expose the limitations ports and nourishes public culture in a democratic environ- of speech (Harriman, 2008). Cooper’s parody of Trump titled ment, it evokes laughter through the images projected, and How to more cases than anybody in the world was posted on Twit- it can demonstrate the limitations in communication and ter on May 14 and already has more than 8 million views. speech (Harriman, 2008). However, as a source of awareness In this TikTok video, Cooper lip-syncs to President Trump’s creation or entertainment, the impact of political comedy and argument for why the United States has more coronavirus humour varies (Becker & Bode, 2017; Jennings et al., 2019). cases, with the obvious inferred conclusion being that the Its influence will depend on how people view and utilize U.S. has more cases because they do more testing (Cooper, political comedy—only those who value political comedy 2020b). Some tweets lauded Cooper’s creative addition to the will be affected by the content, either as entertainment or video, for example one person tweeted “I cannot believe I information, while those who do not are unlikely to learn had to scroll this far down to find a comment about the pen from or be persuaded by the content (Jennings et al., 2019). sniff. Comedic gold” (Tampson, 2020), and another person Another unique feature of parody is that, as an imitation tweeted “the misspelled hydroxychloroquine is a nice touch” of or “take off” on an original work or character, it often goes (Paul, 2020). on to create an entirely new work (Posner, 1992, p. 68). In the The majority of responses to this video complimented case of Cooper and DeCotis, parody allows them to bring in Sarah Cooper. Michael DeCrow tweeted “Sarah, you are pure their own creativity through their facial and body interpreta- genius. Your clips are one of the things that I actually look tions of the original character(s) and the use of accessories. For forward to seeing on Twitter. Thank you for these hilarious these female comedians, “there is both a taking from … and clips. Super well done” (DeCrow, 2020). Others, however, an injection of creativity, large or small” (Posner, 1992, p. 68). tweeted that the President’s words were taken out of con- In effect, parody makes a joke of what the original character text—for example, The Boss tweeted: “You guys twist his said, showing how speech can reproduce itself in ways not speech. What he meant is, other countries like INDIA are not originally intended, which may include the use of add-ons showing more cases and fatalities, since they are not doing such as exaggerated facial expressions (Harriman, 2008).
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