Satire Assignment
Find an example of satire. Post the link and a genius statement. 5 points.
posted by erdecker @ 8:42 AM
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"well did you know when your famous you could kill your wife
and there's no such thing as 25 to life
as long as you got the cash to pay for cochran
and did you know if you were cought and you were smokin crack
and McDonald's wouldnt even wanna take you back
you could always just run for mayor of D.C. " Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Goood Charlotte
target:O.J. Simpson, Marrion Barry
type: horatian
approach: indirect
technique: situational irony
aim: to convince the american public how messed up our court system is for celebraties and to show how if someone is rich or famous they can get away with a lot more.
Well done Hilary! Welcome to 2nd Semester!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident
By the Onion News
Target: Glenn Beck
Type: Juvenalian ("I just wish Glenn Beck would have died instead")
Approach: Direct (There are many direct quotes and headlines saying Glenn Beck should die)
Technique: Parody (News show), High Burlesque, Hyperbole (Exaggerated details)
Aim: To better the world by getting rid of Glen Beck(Or at least get him off TV)
Probably one of the best examples of high burlesque ever, horay for The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/gaffe_
prone_biden_embarrasses
Target: people (specifically newsreporters) who get worked up over trivial things and forget just how insignificant they are
Type: horatian
Approach: indirect
Technique: high burlesque, parody (of arguing newsreporter style)
Aim: to show how silly yet contagious it is to get so worked up about trivial things, and therefore we should come to our senses when watching the news
O MY GOD Marina! that clip is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHA! just a little pathetic...
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_finally_gets_around_to
type: horatian
approach: direct
technique: litote
"And right there underneath all the clutter was some newspaper story from 2003 about how we had finally caught the mass murderer who orchestrated the most gruesome and dramatic terrorist attack of the modern era. I was like, 'Oh, yeah!' and the rest is history."
aim: make a point of how slow the justice department carried out a case that SHOULD have been high priority.
target: Justice Dept.
Example of satire from the Simpsons. Homer and Lisa having a conversation.
-Homer: Are you saying you’re never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
-Lisa: No.
-Homer: Ham?
-Lisa: No.
-Homer: Pork chops?
-Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
-Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
Target- Simple minded people who have never given any thought into why some people are vegetarians.
Type- Horatian.
Approach- Indirect.
Techniques- Verbal Irony. Low Burlesque (Issue of eating other living creatures made into nothing more than a simple joke).
Aim- Exposes common naïve view of vegetarians and why they believe in what they believe in (Homer writes it off as a joke).
Here's a literal video version of The Beatles' "Penny Lane."
It's indirect Horatian satire aimed at The Beatles and their music video, much of which doesn't have anything to do with the content of the song. It is a parody that uses high burlesque to show just how ridiculously nonsensical the video is ("horse montage!")
It also incorporates a unibrow.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/struggling_us_airways
/Spoiler Alert!/ Read the article before scrolling down.
Target: Struggling US airlines
Type: Horatian
Technique: Parody of an airline's advertisement for an exclusive club - the Bomber's Club.
Approach: Indirect
Aim: Show how far the airlines are going to make desperately-needed profits to keep their stuggling business afloat.
Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) — A delegation of American high school students today demanded the United States stop waging war in obscure nations such as Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and instead attack places they've actually heard of, such as France, Australia, and Austria, unless, they said, those last two are the same country.
"Shouldn't we, as Americans, get to decide where wars are?" asked sophomore Kate Shermansky.
"People claim we don't know as much geography as our parents and grandparents, but it's so not our fault," Josh Beldoni, a senior at Fischer High School in Los Angeles, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "Back then they only had wars in, like, Germany and England, but we're supposed to know about places like Somalia and Massachusetts."
"Macedonia," corrected committee Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan.
"See?" said Beldoni.
Beldoni's frustration was shared by nearly three dozen students at the hearing, who blamed the U.S. military for making them look bad.
"I totally support our soldiers and all that, but I am seriously failing both geography and social studies because I keep getting asked to find Croatia or Yemvrekia, or whatever bizarre-o country we send troops to," said Amelia Nash, a junior at Clark High School in Orlando, Fla. "Can't we fight in, like, Italy? It's boot-shaped."
Chairman Levin however, explained that Italy was a U.S. ally, and that intervention is usually in response to a specific threat.
"OK, what about Arulco?" interrupted Tyler Boone, a senior at Bellevue High School in Wisconsin. "That's a country in Jagged Alliance 2 run by the evil Queen Deidranna. I'm totally familiar with that place. She's a major threat."
"Jagged...?" said Levin.
"Alliance. It's a computer game."
"Well, no," Levin answered. "We can't attack a fictional country."
"Yeah right," Boone mumbled. "Like Grenada was real."
The students' testimony was supported by a cross-section of high school geography teachers, who urged the committee to help lay a solid foundation for America's young people by curtailing any intervention abroad.
"Since the anti-terror war began, most of my students can now point to Afghanistan on a map, which is fine, but those same kids still don't know the capitals of Nevada and Ohio," said Richard Gerber, who teaches at Rhymony High School in Atlanta. "I think we need to cut back on our activities overseas and take care of business at home, and if that means invading Tallahassee (Fla.) or Trenton (N.J.) so that students learn where they are, so be it."
"I've always wanted to stick it to Hartford (Conn.)," said Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. "Oh shit, is my microphone on?"
The hearing adjourned after six hours. An estimated 2,000 more students were expected to hold a march in the nation's capital, but forgot which city it was in.
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/geography.shtml
Target: High schoolers who suck at geography.
Type: Horatian.
Approach: Indirect.
Techniques: Low burlesque, verbal irony.
Aim: To spotlight the geographic illiteracy of many American high schoolers.
source: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=51654823264&ref=ts
Make Facebook Extremely Expensive
"This group is gathering support to make facebook extremely expensive. If people have to pay a lot of money -- and i mean a lot, like hundreds, maybe thousands -- then users will be determined to get the most out of facebook to justify the costs. a paying facebook member would use it ALL the time. and we rid ourselves of the people who only occasionaly visit facebook, because they would determine it's not financially worth it. it's time for an absurdly high barrier. sign on."
Target: all the "OH MY GOODNESS THEIR GOING TO MAKE FACEBOOK COST MONEY IF OVER 9000 PEOPLE JOIN THIS GROUP IT WILL STAY FREE" groups, as well as all groups that are overreactions to rumors.
This is satire of the Horatian type, and a very indirect approach. Techniques include Parody (perhaps even a pastiche?), situational Irony, and some high burlesque (seriously, it's facebook, who cares?). Aims include convincing people that facebook should cost money. or convince people to stop freaking out about something as silly as facebook.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/126487/saturday-night-live-update-favorites-feb-6-2010
"The Democrats supermajority of 60 seats officially ended Thursday when Brown was sworn in as the new Senator from Massachusetts. Oh man and just when they were getting no where. But it was a crazy ride, let's take a moment to remember the accomplishments of the Democrats' 60 seat supermajority." (3 things run up the screen).
Target: Democratic Party
Type: horatian
Approach: direct
Techniques: verbal irony (but it was a crazy ride, let's take a moment to remember the accomplishments.."
low burlesque-issue of getting things done in the Senate made into a joke
Aim: To make a point that the Democrat's didn't make use of their majority to get anything done and that Brown being sworn in doesn't really change much, as they weren't passing anything anyways.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/final_season_of_lost_promises_to
Target: Lost fans
Type:horation
approach: indirect
technique:hyperbole, parody, high burlesque
aim: to emphasize how out of control the lost fans have gotten.
If you understand satire, you got one up on Sarah Palin.
*Watch the video on the bottom from 13:34-15:04
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/02/09/2010-02-09_stephen_colbert_defends_sarah_palin_on_colbert_report_calls_her_a_fing_retard.html
Wonderful! Keep it up and let me know if you need help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlohh3jOTeM
This is a clip from Scary Movie 4 when Shaq and Dr. Phil are stuck in a SAW scene.
Target: Techniques used in horror films to scare audiences as well as people that live their life by day time talk shows (Dr. Phil, Oprah, ect...)
Type:Horatian (tries to amuse the audience by making them laugh)
Approach:Indirect
Techniques: situational irony (Shaq and Dr. Phil in a SAW trap, Dr, Phil cutting off wrong foot, Dr. Phill being convinced easily to cut off own foot), Parody of horror films
Aim: To show people how rediculous it is to live your life by a TV show, as well as show how absurb horror films are becoming today
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/final_season_of_lost_promises_to
The onion-
lost fans promise to get more annoying with last season
target-lost fans
type-horation
approach-direct
technique-hyperbole
aim- to show how lost fans take the show way to seriously
-yay for Lost!!!
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml
SatireWire
target: Pres. Bush jr's "axis of evil" Iraq-Iran-North Korea
type: Horation
approach: indirect
technique: low burlesque, parody of "axis of evil"s
aim: to show how American culture tends to overestimate threats to our nation.
For example, Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the Axis of Somewhat Evil, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the Axis of Occasionally Evil, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics; while Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America
http://www.sportspickle.com/article:633/nfl-lays-off-more-than-1600-players
We wish we could tell them to all to show up on Sunday and play games, but it's not something that's possible right now," said commissioner Roger Goodell. "We'll reevaluate things in the coming months and see where we are come fall. That's all we can promise right now."
"Many NFL players say they saw this coming and have socked away some of their income so they can make ends while being unemployed, but other, dumber players have been caught off guard."
Target: NFL, NFL Players
Type: Horation
Approach: Direct- because it targets directly against the NFL and nothing else
Techniques: Hyperbole(Main), Caricature, Lampoon
Aims: Ridicules on how overpaid NFL players are, mocks on how in troubled economic times the NFL is still generating a lot of income and players are still overpaie=d to practice one week and play 1 game a week unlike other sports that have longer seasons and their games are almost everyday such as baseball but most aren't paid nearly as much as NFL players.
Ramon F Banzon
Well this is for anyone who is an Eminem fan...or maybe not... But it is still an example of satire!
Now everyone report to the dance floor
To the dance floor, to the dance floor
Now everyone report to the dance floor
Alright Stop!.....Pajama time
[Verse 1]
Come here little kiddies, On my lap
Guess who's back with a brand new rap?
And I don't mean rap as in a new case of child molestation accusation
(HA-HA-HA-HA-HA)
No worries, papa's got a brand new bag of toys
What else could I possibly do to make noise?
I done touched on everything, but little boys
That's not a stab at Michael
That's just a metaphor, I'm just psycho
I go a little bit crazy sometimes
I get a little bit out of control with my rhymes
target: Michael Jackson
type: Horation
Approach: indirect...although he says Jackson's name he also says its a metaphor..(but is mainly refering to Michael.)
Technique: Low burlesque (child molestation is a serious issue)
Verbal irony?: He is rapping about child molestation, not technically referring to MJ but he just went to court for that.
aim: That people need to pay attention to their children more. Bad things are happening and it is not being seen as a big deal.
I'm on a boat
This Horatian, indirect satire uses parody and caricature of T-Pain (and hip-hop music in general) to target writers and listeners of hip-hop music and make them realize how materialistic the themes of the songs usually are.
- Thomas D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4 hilarious must see...
target: government
type: horatian
Approach: indirect
Aim: to show how ridiculas the lies that are told to us to prevent us from seeing the truth of what the government is really doing oh and its funny.
FIGHT CLUB THE MOVE AND THE BOOK
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/fight-club/
Target: American Masculine
Type: Horation
Approach: Indirect
Technique: Hyperbole because it's an exaggeration of the masculinity...
Aim: To change the way American men think of importance. Show's that life isn't only about how well you can fight.
Techniques: hyperbole really great movie it's legit
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/wal_ cuts_over_13_000mart_ _of_what
Target: Corporate Wal-Mart
Type: Horation
Approach: Direct, it directly targets Wal-Mart’s policies
Techniques: Low burlesque,
situational irony
Aim: To poke fun at Wal-Mart and to show that it’s horrible, but also to show that many companies are going through hard times and even Wal-Mart is subject.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/scrappy_crew_of_good_morning
Target: Good Morning America's cast
Type: Horation
Approach: Indirect
Techniques: parody/hyperbole
Aim: To say Good Morning America isn't a real news show. They just show the antics of the cast and barely report on real news.
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