Just as the music industry has been sampling and mixing styles, beats and genres – the cross over is now happening in TV, film and culture as well. Here is a hilarious rap parody by Aziz Ansari that mixes several streams of culture.
A mixing of characters, real and fake seems commonplace but truly is kinda a new deal. NYMag does a good job describing. While there are spin offs al the time – mixing reality, fake characters and social media is its own genre. It requires hyper acuity to the cultural landscape but its really sweet.