Why SNL’s “Muppets” Parody Had Even the Media Fooled
Copyright Lately
MAY 17, 2021
“Saturday Night Live’s” literal beat down of “The Muppet Show” so closely resembled the classic Jim Henson characters that some viewers thought the Muppets had really made an appearance on the show. Did SNL go too far? Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. Any effective parody requires the audience to immediately recognize the underlying work held up to ridicule.
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