In “The Pitch” and “Moby-Dude,” humor is incorporated to emphasize the character's’ traits. This humor is illustrated through the characters george, Jerry, and the narrator from “Moby-Dude.” George, one of the characters from “The Pitch,” shows juvenile, impulsive characteristics which are revealed through humor. Towards the beginning of “The Pitch,” George humorously asks the question, “Why don’t they have salsa on the table?” (1419). By asking this childish, somewhat rhetorical question, George proves his character to be impulsive, as he commonly says what first comes to mind. Impulsive comments like this prov George to have juvenile characteristics. As George and Jerry discuss ideas for Jerry’s new show in a coffee shop,George reluctantly …show more content…
Shortly after George presents himself as noble for a spot as a character in Jerry’s show, George says to Jerry, “I’m as good as them”. Jerry responds, “Better.” George then replies with the question, “You really think so?”. Jerry then sarcastically responds with “No.” Jerry’s unexpected answer evokes humor by arousing the readers with amusement. This sarcastic remark is used to catch the reader’s attention; the author uses humor and sarcasm to lead the readers to think George believes he is better than TV executives, when in fact he is not. When George presented his idea of a show with a theme of “nothing,” Jerry responded with “Yeah right… you’ve got to have a story,” (1419). The sarcastic line “yeah right” is used in this skit as a way to make the storyline humorous and have life. This detail evokes humor by keeping the readers on the edge of their seats. Jerry goes on to question Geroge as qualified for his show, “You?... So on the show there’s a character named George Castanza?... I think you may have something there,” (1419-1420). Jerry’s obvious resistance to including George in his show is clearly shown through his sarcastic response to George’s idea. Jerry eventually goes on to use this idea for “The Pitch,” which further emphasizes the humor in this
The author, Ernest L. Thayer, of "Casey at the Bat," uses humor to describe Casey's experiences. He uses humor in the form of rhyming. He also uses humor in the form of figurative language. A good bit of humor is shown through these forms of humor. The humor is described very well by the author.
Nearly one-third of the country was tuning into the sitcom every week. George Jefferson’s success on and off screen was aided by the people surrounding him;nonetheless, he figure-headed every plot and all directions of his
The famous episode from Seinfeld, “The Soup Nazi”, is loved and viewed by many. In this episode, both George Costanza (Jay Scott Greenspan) and Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) go to a restaurant that supposedly has the “best soup in the city”, according to the locals. However, everyone calls the owner of the soup restaurant “The Soup Nazi” because of his hard, cold personality and his ability to refuse service to anyone who annoys him. The episode comically portrays the fear which “The Soup Nazi” induces on his customers and the willingness of his customers to come back just because his soup is so delicious (http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/04/the-top-10-seinfeld-episodes?page=2). This episode represents only a small sample of the countless comical and satirical works written by Larry David, the writer of the television series, Seinfeld. Larry David is a comedian as well as a satirist. He is in many Saturday Night Live (SNL) skits as Bernie Sanders, and was the co-creator of the television series, Curb Your Enthusiasm. A common theme throughout his works is his ability to take everyday problems and blow them out of proportion. Larry David practices many techniques in his satirical pieces that explore ideas of race and gender in order to bring across a message to society and entertainment to viewers.
For example, when Melvin and Priscilla were being treated poorly by Monk, “...Priscilla had Monk in a hammerlock” (peck 345). The author uses unusual situations to create humor. This hilarious situation creates humor because Priscilla, a female, takes on the bully of the school, Monk. This creates an ironic, comic situations because you would never expect a girl to beat up a boy. This produces chuckles and grins from the readers since Priscilla play the role of a bigger person. Another example of a comic situation is when Priscilla had stuffed “..Monk into her own locker” (Peck 345). This laughable situation creates humor because Priscilla again plays the role of a bigger person by standing up for herself and the other students who had been bullied by Monk and his Kobras. The way the author described how Priscilla stood up to the bully resulted in the audience smiling and snickering. In summary, the comic situations in this short story display humor in forms of chuckles and snickers from the
First, George’s attentiveness is what led him to be successful since his surroundings influenced him in a positive way. For example on page 11, he says, “I wasn’t any smarter or more special than the guys around me. For some reason, throughout my life I was blessed with people who told me positive things, and I believed in them. I believed my third-grade teacher when she told me that I could go to college and have a great career someday if I just stayed out of trouble.” This shows us that George
The differences between George Bergeron and I are striking, and we deserve a thorough investigation. We are separate in three ways: intelligence quotient and physical appearance. George lives with his wife, Hazel in an era where there’s nothing, but equality. His son, Harrison was taken away by the HG men, due to his mental and physical potential. In both story and the movie, George is shown to have handicaps and earphones, signally that he is mentally more capable of having an extremely high intelligence quotient; while I, on the other hand, does have an average intelligence quotient, but not as smart or as elevated as George. “And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.” It is not very clear that George is fairly aged in the story, but the movie says else wise, but in my head, it seemed as if George was younger than the movie version of him. In the movie, George is physically displayed as a balding, aged man with the looks of a seventy or an eighty-year-old man. George often goes into deep
This figure of speech is seen in the fourth paragraph when Rodriguez says “I use the word ‘comedy’ here as the Greeks used it, with upmost seriousness, to suggest a world where youth is not a fruitless metaphor; where it is possible to start anew; where it is possible to escape the rivalries of the Capulets and the McCoys; where young women can disprove the adages of grandmothers.” The uses of these schemes are important in the passage because they stress emphasis on certain things that help him in explaining and conveying his feelings.
The first act of the show introduces us to the struggle of our main character. George struggles with something that many artists struggle with: the need to create great work, often at the cost of other things in life. George’s life is consumed by this, as shown in the number “Finishing the Hat,” where George expresses how his view of the world works.”How you watch the rest of the world from a window, while you finish the hat.” George laments on how his art consumes him and how he can only see the world through a “window.” The problem with the first act is that it never resolves this struggle with George. Without the second act, George never is fully resolved, left in this state of imbalance.
As the story progresses the reader is told that George has to work the fields because he’s the oldest, while his younger brothers and sisters get to go to school and learn to read and write. George lives a life of working very hard and getting paid very little but his motto is:
More than once in every man’s life he has yearned for something that is out of his reach. Whether it be fashionable clothes, an elaborate home, a newer car, or a more desirable career, some things are unattainable. George Milton, one of the main characters
Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown- Donna M Goldstein
In Britt’s essay, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People”, Suzanne Britt criticizes neat people in a humorous way for certain behaviors. Britt creates a humorous tone and a good impression for sloppy people. This excerpt appears in a book “Show and Tell” Britt writes “It is her journey into the awful cave of self” (214). At first, I was offended by Britt’s essay, but after I realized Britt was using humor, I was able to look at my sister and her sloppiness differently.
The story “Gimpel the Fool” is written in first person point of view; and the narrator, Gimpel, is the main character in the story. In the opening paragraph in the story Singer shows how reliable of a narrator that Gimpel is. Gimpel shares many of the nicknames he has had given to him in school, including “imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny, and fool.” He then says that he was considered a fool because he was easily taken in. He gave an example of one of the situations that earned him that title. “They said, “Gimpel, you know the rabbi’s wife has been brought to childbed?” So I skipped school. Well, it turned out to be a lie. How was I supposed to? She
The story Don Quixote is a burlesque, mock epic of the romances of chivalry, in which Cervantes teaches the reader the truth by creating laughter that ridicules. Through the protagonist, he succeeds in satirizing Spain’s obsession with the noble knights as being absurdly old fashioned. The dynamics of the comedy in this story are simple, Don Quixote believes the romances he has read and strives to live them out, and it is his actions and the situations that he finds himself in during his adventures that make the reader laugh. We can define comedy as something that entertains the reader and that makes us want to laugh out loud and Cervantes succeeds in doing this through his use of
Since George has moved to Toronto, he has gone through so many changes against his own will, and it has made him depressed and bitter. He is applying for a position at a bank and "he was always uncomfortable and impatient whenever he had to go into one." George has been forced to change his morals and even his personal taste just to get ahead in Canada. He doesn't believe that men and women should cohabit if they are not married and is "not a believer in the North American practice of having boys going to school with girls." He listens to a rock and roll station even though he hates it just so he can find out what time it is. He plans to lie about his educational background at his job interview to impress them; where as his education in Barbados is above average. His entire lifestyle has changed and his fear of failure drove him over the edge.