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Types of Humor IT’S NOT JUST FUNNY PEOPLE…. Parody  A literary composition modelled on and imitating another work just to be funny  Sometimes, parody.

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1 Types of Humor IT’S NOT JUST FUNNY PEOPLE…

2 Parody  A literary composition modelled on and imitating another work just to be funny  Sometimes, parody can be used to make fun of something that is wrong.

3 Famous for Parody: Weird Al Yankovic Recorded song  Don’t Go Chasin’ Waterfalls  Gansta’s Paradise  Beat It  Another One Bites the Dust  Like a Virgin Al’s Parody  Don’t Go Makin’ Phony Calls  Amish Paradise  Eat It  Another One Rides the Bus  Like a Surgeon Mind Games Vs. Word Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

4 Satire: You have a point there, son.  Definition: the literary art of making fun to bring attention to certain follies, vices, and abuses, as well as to provoke change  Satire: Laugh = Think

5 Satire Attacks  Satire generally attacks two areas:  Human folly (Characteristics)  Contemporary Issues  Remember, if you laugh or think “what…” the author has completed his/her mission

6 What is this picture about? How is it Satire?

7 Three types of Satire: 1. Horatian Satire Definition:  Satire which is gentle, tolerant, amused and witty. What makes fun of?  Typically ridicules universal human folly so readers might identify with what is being critiqued and laugh at themselves as well as at society

8 Type 2: Juvenalian satire Definition:  Bitter and biting. Formal  More angry and abrasive, and uses strong irony and sarcasm  Aimed at making change Typically attacks:  Actual people  Politics (Political satire)

9 Third: Menippean satire Definition:  Menippean criticizes mental attitudes rather than societal norms or specific individuals. Often makes fun of  single-minded people, such as bigots, cheapskates, showoffs, and so on

10 Elements of Satire  Irony  Sarcasm  Juxtaposition  Analogy  Parody  Double entendre  Underlying criticisms  Understatement  Wit  Glaring idiocy  Symbolism  Shock value  No official style or genre

11 Examples of Satire: OLDER!  Horace: Satires (Roman)  Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spanish)  Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Irish)  Huxley: Brave New World (English)  Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm (English) NEWER!  South Park  Spinal Tap  The Onion  Saturday Night Live  The Simpsons and Futurama  Howard Stern  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart  The Colbert Report

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