hese are hard times, no doubt for just about all of us. Let's give some consideration to automobiles. There are people who have purchased new cars within the last couple of years. Sadly, since that time they have lost their jobs and can no longer afford to make a car payment in the neighborhood for $400+ per month. Before they know it, they find themselves getting their beautiful cars getting repossessed by the finance company. How embarrassing this can be for you with your neighbors, unless it has happened to them too. Now you do not have a car, your credit is ruined, you need a car, what are you to do?…
WHITE FAMOUS breaks many traditional television conventions to deliver an over the top but still on message story of a black comedian’s entry into the hearts of white America, with the ultimate goal to be “White Famous.” During his anti-hero's journey he butts head with racial prejudice and Hollywood double standards.…
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, and when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one. A child’s nursery rhyme describing what a young woman, Lizzie Borden, did to her parents.…
Peter then has to go to jail, translated orally as ‘prison’. The parody of the joke about his shower experience transfers well to French, as the ‘do not drop your soap in the prison shower’ gag is known in both cultures. Back home, Stewie offers his mom some grenades, quoting Forrest Gump’s ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get!’. Unfortunately, the French adaptors did not take the exact quote from the movie: instead of saying ‘on ne sait jamais sur quoi on va tomber’, the baby says ‘on ne sait jamais quelle crotte on va avoir’. However, the new pun and the insistence on Stewie’s way of speaking do play a crucial part in Stewie’s portraying and the quote is still distinguishable. At the courthouse, translated…
The satirical piece to be analysed is a piece from the Onion a well-known satirical show / site. The piece of theirs is called “armed gunman” sketch from the onion movie. All the satirical elements displayed within the sketch, as well as the invited alternate and resistant views of the piece will be analysed and discussed throughout the remainder of this speech.…
In the Dave Chapelle skit we watched, there was white family whose last name was niggar. Throughout the skit they refer to themselves as niggars, and it sounds really funny and out of place. However if it were a black family it would have changed things around a bit. The reason it is funny is how it pokes fun at a very harmful word. I think this was satire, because it poked fun at the word, but teaches the audience how it really depends on circumstances when the word is used.…
South Park is an American animated television comedy series about four third grade schoolboys who live in the small, backward mountain town of South Park. The series was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and has been aired by Comedy Central since 1997. The show is well known for its pop-culture parody, outrageous humor, and sardonic handling of current events. Family Guy is an American animated television series about a family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The show focuses on the fictional Griffin family and its ungainly character Peter Griffin. Seth MacFarlane created the show for the FOX channel. Family Guy was cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the substantial viewership…
On December 3rd, 2013 a man by the name of Ki-Suck Han was struck by a train in the late afternoon at the Time Square Substation. After having an altercation with Naeem Davis, a homeless man of the age of 30, Han was pushed down onto the tracks by Naeem Davis. Surrounded by several witnesses, Han seeing the oncoming train, pleaded for help and tried to lift himself off the tracks and back onto the platform. Instead of helping, those around him, instead stood there, pressed a few buttons on their phones (probably less than they would have in comparison of calling 911) and proceeded to record the incident before Han was impacted by the train. As Han’s struggled and pleaded…
* Begin to analyse a ‘Family Guy’ episode to understand the satire used within the episode.…
Stewart's purpose for writing jokes on The Daily Show is to emphasize the absurdities of ideologies and of big political and world figures. He also criticizes these ideologies and writes jokes in a way that informs and educates the public while adding in a bit of humor here and…
Kentucky Senator and Libertarian favorite, Rand Paul has a new campaign strategy — attempting to take down Republican front-runner Donald Trump.…
In this comic, the satirist is trying to persuade President Obama. The cartoon’s has the Obama quote “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise” to depict how Obama thinks it’s possible to find a middle ground in Congress. This cartoon relates to our in-class discussion of the legislation creation process is, and how hard is to get bills passed when neither party wants to negotiate. It’s telling him to stand up against the Republican Party. The message of the cartoon is that Obama keeps thinking it’s possible to find a compromise between the two parties, but he’s scared to take any sort of risks against the Republican Party. The cartoonist’s ideology is probable a Democrat who is let down by how poorly Obama has done.…
To wrap up our satire unit in Honors English 11, we were asked to do a satirical skit covering a real world problem. The skit needed to be a minimum of five minutes long and it had to propose an outlandish solution to a common problem faced today. Additionally, we were asked to add three facts to our script. My group covered the issue of war. Our proposed solution was to forcefully distribute a drug that raises dopamine and serotonin levels. Thus, individuals would experience a sense of euphoria, decreasing the number of conflicts in the world. The purpose of this project was to enable us to achieve a deep understand of satire and encourage us to think about the struggles the world faces.…
Stereotypes have had a prominent role in American comedies, particularly sitcoms, practically since their introduction. ABC’s newest hit comedy Modern Family is no different. The cast is diverse in every way, and the writers use that to diversify the characters and get away with using obvious stereotypes placed upon gender and sexuality. The show is presented in a mockumentary style and focuses on three families who are related through marriage. Phil and his wife Claire represent the nuclear family; Jay and his new wife Gloria represent the inter-generation family; and finally Mitchell and Cam represent the homosexual family structure. Modern Family cleverly uses gender, racial, and sexual stereotypes to make the audience bond with and identify with the characters on-screen, and by combining these stereotypes with the mockumentary style Modern Family is able to give off a feeling of realism that makes the characters even more relatable.…
Work Title: Family Guy, Season 4 Episode 25: You May Now Kiss The… Uh… Guy Who Receives.…