Third Satire Blogpost

By: Heather Park

Article - Anciety Ridden Man Rightly Ashamed Of Every Single Thing He Does

This article is a satire because it is evidently mocking the issue of extremely self concious people. In addition, this article effectively displays exaggeration and incongruity through the way this "anxiety ridden man" thinks and acts about the smallest of issues such as the way he throws a ball. People everyday are concious of every move they make, and feel that others will remember them for their most embarassing moments and spend hours judging them. Because the topic of this article is true, it makes people chuckle and slap their knees because they realize that this is often how they think and act due to their self consciousness, although most people do not notice or judge the majority of others' actions. Ultimately, this article is funny because it allows people to relate to it, and even laugh at themselves.




Video - Why Am I Failing English

This video is also a satire because it addresses the issue of lazy, underachieving students. This video illustrates these students by the obvious
lack of effort from the student, and ridiculous excuses. In addition, this video is funny because it is also something people, mostly students and professors, can relate to. In this video, there is only slight exaggeration because the truth behind the situation itself is humorous. My personal laugh-out-loud moment was at the very end of the video when the professor asked his student if he could say the phrase "Do you want fries with that?" because he was implying that because the student is failing three out of four courses, he will get nowhere in life and end up working at places such as McDonald's or Burger King.


In my opinion, both satires were funny because they are true, real life situations that people encounter.The fact that people can relate to a funny situation, and even laugh at themselves once they realize they have been through a nearly exact same situation, makes the matter even more humorous and laughable.

Humour Unit Final Project

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Humour Unit Final Assignment

By: Heather Park and Vivian Lou

                The types of comedy used for our final assignment were comedy of ideas, especially satire. Satire was used in our presentation by illustrating people’s ridiculous needs for excuses. It exaggerated the extremity of this by imitating advertisements and commercials. We thought our presentation was funny because it ridiculed many subjects such as people who use extremely long words to appear intelligent, over excited advertisers, and people who are desperate for any believable excuse. In addition, a key point in making our presentation was saying every line as serious as possible. The incongruity of such absurd excuses being recited with such seriousness was chuckle worthy to us. 

Our advertisement was inspired by Nigahiga (Ryan Higa) from Youtube with his spoof advertisements, such as "The ShamWOOHOO". After looking around for ideas, we settled on making this video advertisement because of our Youtube inspirations. Since Nigahiga's video advertisements seemed the most humourous from our point of view, we decided to create one of our own. This led to our production of an "excuse- maker", a complicated and bizarre-looking device that generates excuses. 

The difficult aspect of comedy is that it is very ambiguous and appears in any form whatsoever. Choosing a form to present our project was hard. Furthermore, something that may seem funny to the creator can seem extremely weird or entirely idiotic to the audience. Our video was a great example of this because we used ridiculous logic in our excuses; it seemed hilarious to us, but we had no idea whether the audience would appreciate it. We also didn't realize how difficult making the video would be. Writing the script was a breeze and we had a good laugh thinking up the most far-fetched excuses. When we got to the actual filming, reality smacked us right in the forehead as our many attempts went down the drain. Advertising the product in a serious way that would seem hilarious was very awkward to do and took acting skills. The name of the product (Ultimate Superlative Exemplary Unsurpassed Splendid Excuse-a-nator), along with ridiculously long words, were a mouthful to memorize and say in front of a video camera. I guess the moral of the story was that comedians have a tougher job than we thought, at first.



Nevertheless, it was an amusing experience. We were able to watch the end product and be satisfied with what we had worked on to present. Even if our humour project does not seem funny to others, we still got good laughs out of creating it out of scratch. Like most assignments, it was strenuous work for our thinking minds, but in the end, the production of humour was something that we both enjoyed doing.

Response To A Funny Book

The Year of Living Biblically

One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible

As Literally as Possible

Heather Park

The Year of Living Biblically is comedy of ideas. It is satirical and subtly mocks religion, and more specifically, Christianity and the Ten Commandments. For one year, A.J. Jacobs dove headfirst and attempted to obey the Bible as literally as possible. He vowed to follow the Ten Commandments and also the hundreds of less publicized rules. In this book, A.J. Jacobs mocks many rules of Christianity such as avoiding wearing clothes made of mixed fibers, and to stone adulterers. Another rule he followed was that he ‘must not pick up fallen grapes, but leave them for the poor’. While he was walking down the streets of New York, he accidently dropped a five dollar bill and lied to a woman and said that it wasn’t his, but that it belonged to the poor. Although the bible hadn’t meant the phrase to be taken so literally, Jacobs had decided to interpret every phrase as literally as possible.

I would recommend this book for people who are both religious and atheist. Though The Year of living Biblically is part CliffNotes to the Bible, it is both laugh out loud funny and enlightening. The incongruity of events such as buying a chicken from a man who studied religion all his life just because he had told him the bible says to own a chicken was gave me many chuckles. Also, he exaggerated many rules of Christianity such as not wearing mixed fibers by wearing a white wool robe for the entire year. Jacobs illustrated living a ‘flawless’ life. The Year of Living Biblically was insightful as well as humorous and witty. Jacobs’ memoir was funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, and personal and universal. I would recommend this book for anyone who would like to have an eye opening read, and a good chuckle.