Comedy, feminism, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with Morgan Brayton | Pop This! Summer Re-release

Aug 16, 2023

Summary:

It seems like only yesterday that we first talked about Amy Sherman Palladino's latest hit show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Now, in the year 2023, we are witness to its fifth and final season. This week's summer re-release episode harkens back to 2020 when we discussed the first season of the period comedy-drama with the always-funny Morgan Brayton. 

 

 

Show notes:

 

Morgan Brayton

 

Morgan Brayton on Twitter

 

The Lady Show

 

Pioneering comic Jean Carroll (YouTube)

 

Lenny Bruce: All Alone (YouTube)

 

Shtick, stereotypes, and self-parody: How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets Jewish culture wrong (LA Times)

 

 

Recommendations:

Andrea W.:  The Allusionist: Live on the Road (podcast)

Lisa: Catch and Kill with Ronan Farrow (podcast) 

Morgan:  I Saw Three Ships by Bill Richardson (book)
 

Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod
Music from https://filmmusic.io
CC BY 4.0

"Ghost" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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