1. It’s not just funny people…
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 wrong.

3. Famous for Parody: Weird Al Yankovic
Recorded song
Al’s Parody
Don’t Go Chasin’ Waterfalls
Gansta’s Paradise
Beat It
Another One Bites the Dust
Like a Virgin
Don’t Go Makin’ Phony Calls
Amish Paradise
Eat It
Another One Rides the Bus
Like a Surgeon
Mind Games Vs. Word Crimes:

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:
What makes fun of?
Satire which is gentle, tolerant, amused and witty.
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:
Typically attacks:
Bitter and biting. Formal
More angry and abrasive, and uses strong irony and sarcasm
Aimed at making change
Actual people
Politics (Political satire)

9. Third: Menippean satire
Definition:
Often makes fun of
Menippean criticizes mental attitudes rather than societal norms or specific individuals.
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! NEWER! Horace: Satires (Roman)
Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spanish)
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Irish)
Huxley: Brave New World (English)
Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm (English)
South Park
Spinal Tap
The Onion
Saturday Night Live
The Simpsons and Futurama 
Howard Stern 
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 
The Colbert Report