Humor In Jeffery Klassen's Poem

Comedy is a type of entertainment that uses jokes and skits that are intended to make the audience laugh. In the short story, “Priscilla and the Wimps,” Monk Clutter had the school under control with his gang, the Klutters Kobras. Before Priscilla came, the gang would go around the school stealing kids lunch money from students. When Priscilla came, Monk had finally met his match. Richard Peck’s short comedy, “Priscilla and the Wimps” is a high level of comedy that uses comic characters, comic situations, and comic language to convey the importance of treating others the way you want to be treated.

In the “Story of an Hour” we observe many instances in which irony takes place.

Richard Pryor once said, “There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at” (A-Z Quotes). Leon Rappoport, a professor at Kansas State University, believed in the same thin line as Pryor. Rappoport received his BA and MS at New York University, and completed his PhD in 1963 at the University of Colorado(Kansas State University). He studied psychological sciences, and concentrated his studies in decision making and human judgment, even writing a book called Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor (Kansas State University). In another book, The Sword and Shield Metaphor and Other Perspectives, Rappoport claims that humor depends on how the audience receives humor. The audience can either be on the side of the audience that is getting laughed at, or they can be on the side of the audience that is laughing with other people.

One article describes this by stating “The Importance of Being Earnest comedy stems from the way various characters flaunt the moral strictures of the day, without ever behaving beyond the pale of acceptable society” (“The Importance of being Earnest” 141). Wilde also uses comedy to get people to laugh at themselves without even knowing it. Gielgud points this out when he says “the people who laughed at this were merely laughing at themselves, only slight exaggeration was used onstage” (Gielgud 414). Comedy is often seen as a relief to lighten moods and help people forget their problems, Wilde is able to do just that while also teaching readers valuable lessons in life. Wilde also proves that having good morals should not be your top priority but to also treat people with

or this assignment, I had chosen to read both poems by Sherman Alexie, and after doing so I could analyze that Alexie had strong feeling and opinions on how American had looked at native American and that he really understood what Native American went through on the reservations. In the first poem, Alexie likes to talk about how a Native American is on a train traveling and the women next to him were trying to tell him all the history about the house on the hill. However, the native American claimed he didn’t “give a shit” about any of the history because he had already known because it was his culture. I analyzed this by taking in that American cannot educate on one's other culture or history if they didn’t learn properly. It is yes history

and how the genre communicates a message through the use of comedic irony. In this chapter

The nonsensical poem, “Jabberwocky,” was written by Lewis Carrol in 1871 for Alice’s second adventure: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. “Jabberwocky” describes the adventure of a single boy through a land of oddities. In this poem, Carrol creates a whimsical, alternate reality filled with heroes, villains and magical creatures, undergoing a constant battle between good and evil. Carrol uses vivid imagery and neologisms in “Jabberwocky” to exemplify and play with the oddities of Wonderland and display a fanciful heroism within the character.

Hey Professor, You can find the documentary can we take a joke? on amazon prime. If you have a membership with prime it will be free to watch but if not, you can rent it for only 0.99 like I did. This documentary made me realize how much stand-up comedians are apart of their own "Subculture." You can label comedians as pre-political primitive rebels. If you take their performance space (the stage) as an example, they use they atmosphere as a safe haven place. They have a sense of their own reality as if whatever they say will be taken as a joke and no more or nothing less but once they drop the mic and the lights dim, reality hits them hard. I could honestly write my semester paper using this documentary. There's so many examples of stand-up

Did you do anything with your life lately? Do you even exist? Are there any reasons attached to your actions? Good, bad, made up reasons?! Any reason?! Black, white, right or wrong?! Did you think about reaction, the anti-Christ of all actions? Do you have any shades between your legs? Are you still thinking about coexistence and harmony, the celebrated way of our universe?

Arthur Koestler (1964) furthered the incongruity approach to humor by developing the concept of bisociation which explains the mental processes involved in humor. According to Koestler (1964), “bisociation occurs when a situation, event, or idea is simultaneously perceived from the perspective of two self-consistent but normally incompatible or disparate frames of reference. Thus, a single event is made to vibrate simultaneously on two different wavelengths, as it were”. Therefore, the crux of humor is the simultaneous activation of two contradictory perceptions which makes a person sense the incongruity in the

We think we are invincible. We feel as if we are untouchable. In our little bubble we are in safe haven, secure from the suffering that plagues the human collective. Blissfully hidden from the forces that move the ground and shake the sky, we are incarnate. In the leafy suburbia that has come to encompass the world’s most fortunate; the uppermost echelons of a society with so many such rungs on its ladder, time will not strike us down. The dice of life shall show us only sixes, and the sun will remain smiling, forever beaming its sweet rays. And when the sun sleeps the moonlight shall take its place, and the darkness that looms will be forever kept at bay, and life will be perpetually effervescent.

Sentiment's Vengeance The nights get longer and longer As my anguish rises I can't seem to comprehend Your infinite and endless disguises For once just grace me with your presence Stop hiding behind walls and doors Take the mask off your face And show me that smile I adore This vendetta is not about riches

In the poem it talks about a subway ride of a wealthy white and that he mets an african american boy. This poem uses similies and juxtaposition to develop a contrast of white and black that leads the speaker to explain that appearances can be deceiving. The african american boy and the white guy meetin a crowded subway car. The speaker experiences fear when he sees the boy because he says he has a "casual cold look of mugger". He thinks how easily it is for the boy to take the speaker's belonging, like his coat, briefcasd and lofe. Then the speaker takes adavantage of him coat, briefcase and life. Then the speaker takes advantage of him and his race. The speaker then starts makes references to slavery telling him stereotypes that are usually

What makes something funny? This is a question that I recently set out to answer. For years people have argued that “if it's funny, anyone will laugh.” This misconception was address by Dan O’Shannon in the article “What Are You Laughing At?: A Comprehensive Guide to the Comedic Event.” In the article, he stresses two different key components of a joke, that do not even involve the actual content of the joke. These are called reception factors, and enhancers/inhibitors. In an attempt to identify these components, I showed a group of friends a comic and observed their reactions.

He gives an example of humor as follows: “A rogue who was being led out to execution on a Monday remarked: ‘Well, this week’s beginning nicely.’'” We feel a kind of humoristic pleasure here because of, according to Freud, “an economy in expenditure upon feeling.”