The episode Hush was like something I have never seen before in modern television. Shows communication and how hard it is without words. Imagine if we couldn’t speak and had to get by, by hand motioning or even everyone had to learn sign language.

The Pioneers of Television episode Funny Ladies spotlighted a few famous women from early television. Carol Burnett, Lucy Ball, Betty White, and Joan Rivers along with Marla Gibbs. Joan Rivers changed the comedy world, telling jokes women had no business telling and bringing a new kind of humor to the stage. She did not plan to even work in comedy. She was a Broadway actress at first. She was already comfortable on stage and saw an advertisement for a comedy job for $6. She took it because it was just as good as her current job and thought it would be easy. She ended up having a long and successful career as a comedian. Lucy and Betty did very well for themselves too. Betty had her own show and had a talk show along with working as a producer. Marla on the other hand struggled to get jobs on television because of her skin color and age. She got on an episode of The Jefferson’s and was quite funny. They kept her around after that.

In regards to the discussion we had in class about the Presidential Debate- it was absurd. The whole time watching it I would think to myself, Trump is clearly just trying to not lose votes and Biden seemed more open and not afraid of that. Trump wouldn’t comment on certain areas like Black Lives Matter and white supremacy groups. Trump also has still not laid out a health care plan, Biden at least has a plan and laid it out for people to hear. Trump will continue to say “we have a plan” when there is no plan. Trump would also make comments to Joe like “you just lost the far left” referring to statements Joe made that would cause him to lose voters. Yet, Trump was the one staying away from topics and not making statements to lose voters. When Biden spoke on the issue with law enforcement Trump yells “Oh you just lost the far left”. Joe did what Trump was afraid to do which was address real problems instead of just sit up there to stratify his radical left voters. Trump would not offend his radical right supporters because he knows he needs them to win. When asking about the white supremacy and he said “stand down and stand by”. I don’t believe he supports those groups but he knows those groups heavily support him. By saying stand down and stand by “was not going to lose the radical right”. By doing that he made it very evident he really only cares about be re-elected and not about helping our country get out of this terrible time.

Both candidates were guilty of interrupting, but Trump was way worse. He seemed to not be able to follow simple directions allowing for a civil debate to take place. Based on how many times he was reminded of the rules and how many times he interrupted, he had to have planned to do that to not let Joe get his points across. It was extremely disrespectful and embarrassing. Embarrassing because we can’t even have a real debate with what was going on.