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    Barry's 'Guys Vs. Men'

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    I would define a humorist someone who writes in a very humorous way. Someone who is a humorist, I believe has characteristics like, they like to joke around, they are funny, they tell funny stories, and use their own interpretation of the word or words in their own way. Maybe like Barry used the word guys and men int the reading “Guys Vs. Men”. He basically defined what he thought to be a “man” was and he thought it was to a degree to show maturity. He also used the word “guy” to show that it…

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    Sitcom Conventions

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    The sitcom genre is a familiar genre that majority are familiar with and is a growing genre in the media industry. Sitcoms generate millions of dollars every year with new popular TV sitcoms coming out every year along with the traditional sitcoms producing new seasons. The conventions of a sitcom separate this genre from others, like limited locations, stereo typical characters and circular narrative. The sitcom producers modified these conventions as the genre has grown and gained more ratings…

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    “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”-Erma Bombeck. Inside every art form, there’s artists that display the true essence of their particular craft much differently than the others. Within Comedy, you have different types of comedians with the same goal in mind in which is to make every one laugh. Improvisational comedy is the hardest to do because unlike prop and solo comedians, improvisational comedians has no time to rehearse or to test…

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    Smith’s A Dead Man Laughing discusses the life of her father’s infatuation with comedy, and how it became a vehicle for discussing deeper issues and its associated impacts. Smith’s usage of personal observations and irony along with strong imagery and her unique style of description allowed for the development of insights and maintenance of a cohesive flow of ideas. Thus, allowing her to craft a compelling masterpiece. Through personal observations Smith efficiently displays the…

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    Humor is a literary tool that induces amusement or laughter which offers a different form of a call to action. Humor is typically used to emphasize a situation that is occurring immediately rather than a crisis that will arise in the future. By bringing to life the funny sides of life, humor mocks the current social norms and standards to evoke change. It is a useful call to action because humor creates a safe subversion to discuss taboo material. Therefore, in Lysistrata, an ancient Athenian…

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    Humor and Perspective Change the way you look at things to change the things you look at. Humor offers different emotions. As we grow, we experience different emotions from which we have our own perspective. As a result, we fail to understand various jokes. Even though we laugh at any jokes, we often don’t understand it and have no clue about the person’s point of view. We have laughter in our lips, but deep down we ponder over what is the reason behind the joke. Everything in this world has a…

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    Satire is a literary genre that uses irony, humor, or sarcasm to criticize any social, political and moral vices in a humorous way for a moral purpose or for the perfection of humanity. Indeed a satire attacks foolishness, follies, vices, and wrongs by making fun of them cleverly. Its one and only goal is to stir up human conscience to make changes for the better. The main elements of a satire are humor, criticism and moral tone. Satire can be seen as the particular literary way of making…

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    Alaine De Botton Analysis

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    Some subjects are considered dangerous or impossible to address formally or face to face. Therefore, that’s where humorists play a role. Alaine de Botton, author of “Status Anxiety,” believes that because humorists can say things that other people will not, they are there to convey messages that are too dangerous to state directly. Humorists, like ones on Saturday Night Live and in movies, use comedy and jokes to bring about difficult messages. Saturday Night Live (SNL) often uses satirical…

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    The subject of the satire is to stop abortion. Juvenalian satire is angry, caustic, resentful and personal. Abortion is an example of Juvenalian satire because people have different opinions on whether or not to have an abortion. In this first picture, it is a mock encomium because the man does not want the government to get involved in his health care but he is okay telling the government to get involved in women’s health care. In the bottom half of this cartoon to the left is saying the…

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    “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own” (Swift). Beholders are intended, through guidance of satiric narrative, to recognize a sense of social injustice or political plights and that there are wrongs occurring that need to be fixed. In some satires, as in Swift’s own A Modest Proposal, the use of absurd, blatant exaggeration is intended to capture an idle audience’s attention regarding the social state of the poor. Yet even in such a…

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