Joke

Who is my dad? My dad is a former factory worker and fast food restaurant worker. He is the father of four kids and he was married once. My dad has a lot of traits that I don't admire and he doesn’t really have any that I can admire but I still decided I could get the best paragraphs from writing about my dad. The traits that I wrote about are unintelligent, funny, and lazy. Those traits are not good yet for some reason I still can admire my dad. One thing about my dad is that he is…

issues to his acts in a blunt yet refreshing way. Bo Burnham is known for his satirical songs that focus on touchy subjects such as race, gender, human sexuality, sex, and religion, and this particular performance was full of such comedic songs and jokes. To start the show, Bo Burnham opened with a song called “Straight White Man” where he sang ironically about how hard it was to be a cis, white man. With funny yet accurate lines such as “give me a chance to show you what it is like to be a…

were also some audience members who took what Clay said personal thus bringing offense to themselves and other people. Klosterman admitted that “how you felt about Clay symbolized something about how you viewed the world” (Klosterman 98). All his jokes were aimed at specific topics and issues that mattered to him but also paralleled the same topics and issues that mattered to other more discriminatory peoples. For example, a piece of art could be taken as sexist just because there was no sign of…

A famous example of someone who successfully utilizes kairos is President Barack Obama. Much of his presidential success can be contributed to his persuasive and engaging speeches which affect people’s emotions and ultimately, their actions in the polls. After winning the primary election in the state of South Carolina, he performed a speech entitled “Yes, we can change.” He caters the entire speech specifically to the people he is addressing; every section of his speech takes into consideration…

Chickenpox is a disease that has been thought of as a joke in today's generation. The truth is that chickenpox was no laughing matter in the past. This disease could kill people and is made a joke today because a cure has been found, so the disease is not as threatening.The history of chickenpox is amazingly interesting from how it was discovered to how a cure was found. All of these events in history have been marked and will be explained in great detail. The common name of this disease is…

In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance”, Mary Ray Worley explains that it is possible to be fat and yet happy with your body. She discovered this for herself at a conference in San Diego. In August 2000, Worley attended the annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and she felt as if she was visiting another planet (Worley 163). Her eyes were opened to the possibility that fat people did not have to feel ashamed about their bodies. She explains…

was at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. I felt 10 feet tall walking into the S-1 for in processing with my green dress uniform but tall that motivation went down the drain, the ghost of my language barrier and jokes about height continue hunting me. Once again, jokes about my accent and height were my daily treatment by many of the Soldiers. There was not a single day that my Sergeant did not listen to a complaint from me about my experience, but he provided resilience and…

Lincoln: The Man Behind the Legend Many people believe that Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest presidents the U.S. has ever seen. Stories of his accomplishments have brought this man to a legendary status, hiding the real Lincoln like a veil. Many people don’t know the real Lincoln; the man behind the legend. Lincoln is often thought of as a righteous bastion of freedom, fighting his whole life to free slaves. In fact, while Lincoln was against slavery, he wasn’t actively trying to stop…

end up in a hot tub with your father and three or four really old men. That's a perfect way to meet elderly people: half-naked, sitting in tubs of hot, bubbling water. They get out, they look like an ad for gravity." This is just one of the many jokes written by the widely known comedian: Jerry Seinfeld. He started out by making his friends laugh, hit a few hardships around the way, but in the end he made it to the top. His father inspired him to be a comedian by saying “He was always making…

As stated by Belton Dr. Strangelove deal with cold war comedy in a very black tone specifically the concept of nuclear war and the mutually assured destruction that comes with it. The central element of the films comedic antics comes from Kubrick making fun of how fucking ridiculous and frightening the concept of nuclear war is especially how within the US military system of the time the potential for unplanned war was quite high. This frightening observation becomes the plot of Dr Strangelove…