It mixes soap-opera sentimentality with playful, jumpy aggression and dresses a bittersweet, rags-to-riches fable in the bright clothes of pop satire.
Serendipitously enough, it arrives just after the Arctic Monkeys' debut, an album that revels in precisely the kind of English pop satire that Davies invented 40 years ago.
He wasn't the first person to realize that his brand of one-man variety show — equal parts teen confessional, pop satire and really great hair — might appeal to legions of angsty, wry-minded teens.
Its packed programme ranges from musings on mourning and memory and a subversive installation exploring pain and medicine to a homage to Brazil that includes a Tropicália pop satire by Thelma Bonavita using wigs, balloons and fruit.
Back in 2012, the global success of PSY's K-pop satire "Gangnam Style" got Kim thinking about how South Korea, a post-colonial nation with a long history of importing foreign culture, had rapidly developed its own style and begun to export it through Asia, then the West.
The DreamWorks Animation formula, exemplified in the mighty "Shrek" franchise (and imitated by would-be rivals at Sony and Fox), is to charm the children with cute creatures and slapstick action while jabbing at the grown-ups with soft, pseudosophisticated pop- cultural satire.
The Manhattan-based digital media company — which operates at the intersection of comedy, pop culture, satire and sports — joins featured partners Major League Baseball, Whistle Sports, the World Surf League and 'Ball in the Family', an episodic reality show starring LaVar Ball and company.
His political and pop culture satire has been featured on Funny or Die, CBS, MTV News and Yahoo.
Four more successful albums followed in the next four years, with songs featuring sophisticated lyrics about Nazi atrocities, pop-culture satire, drug deals gone awry and love.
A late-night kids' show intended for adults, "Comedy Central's TV Funhouse" was blasphemous, bawdy and often brilliant as it combined low-tech puppetry, animated pop-culture satire and puerile humor into half-hours of jaw-dropping bad taste.
As you're probably sensing, they exist in a post-alternative comedy free-for-all where two white male comics can cheerfully crossdress, play Turkish and Japanese, and veer wildly between Benny Hill-esque fart gags and adroit pop-culture satire.
