Humorous On Command Analysis

I found “Shitty First Draft” interesting due to humorous tone remains throughout the essay. After reading this paper, I realized how important to convey different tones of writing in accordance with the situation or the story you are telling; it is reflective of your writing style, current mood and even your point of view towards certain subject matters. For example, in “Shitty First Draft”, the author reveals some facet of writers in face of challenging themselves to finish writing. Instead of being calm and relaxed, those writers are anxious and worrisome as the author states, “It is not like you don't have a choice---because you do---you can either type or kill yourself.” By telling the readers a few writing stories in an amusing way, the author successfully makes the difficulty of writing understandable to the readers. It is like telling yes, I understand your pain because I went through it before and everyone did. By doing so, the author makes herself approachable to the students who struggle with writing and those potential readers are now more willing to listen to her advice.

These speeches manage to deliver an important message for young people through humor. Both Mark Twain and McCullough satirize one extreme to reinforce the truth behind their concepts.

Throughout time, humorists have been able to pull off a phenomenon, which allows for others to laugh about sensitive, stressful topics. With talent, humorists are able to captivate positive emotion from their audience and allow for society to see delicate issues in an unbiased view. Although humorists are commonly seen as people who only intend to entertain, humorists purposefully say things through their work that allow for hard issues to be spoken or illustrated.

The power of comedy is that it takes contemporary issues and stretches them to the extreme and then puts the exaggerated picture of who we are as a society back in our faces. Back a while ago, comedian great Mike Myers played Pitka in the movie flop "The Love Guru". During a number of scenes, Pitka would make comments, realize that they were catchy, and then quickly tack on and little "TM" to his statement. The idea was that he was trademarking everything clever that he said. Ridiculous? That's why it's comedy.

In Alain de Botton’s book, Status Anxiety, he claims that a humorist’s purpose is “not merely to entertain, but to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly.” Humorists have more leeway when discussing controversial topics, thus they serve a vital function in society; however, humorists also have other intentions such as entertaining their audiences and earning revenue.

Tina Dupuy is known as an award-winning writer, an investigative journalist, and a comedian. She’s written for The Atlantic, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, Vox, and Mother Jones, which are newspapers that covers various subjects including politics. The effect of satire in her writing allows people to see these issues in a new light. Dupuy’s style, being characterized with ethical appeal, colloquial expressions and diction is expressed through wit and many rhetorical questions.

My most memorable writing experience was in my senior year of high school. We were given free range to write about any subject (if it was school appropriate), so I decided to write on the history of rap music. Now up until this paper I had never made an A on my papers. I had one C paper and usually could not make above a B. I was passionate about this subject though, I love history and old school rap music. I poured my heart, tons of facts, and history into this paper. I felt like I went beyond what was required of me with this paper. I was nervous as all get out. Here it is the day we get our final papers back and……… An A+. I was astonished, I cried. The teacher told me that it was very informative and

Emergency services face vast difficulties in the operations field when handling emergency situations, whether it comes from handling a minor accident to a catastrophic catastrophy. Many of the difficulties do not come from the actual incident, but instead they arise from forming a rescue team containing different agencies and people. For the benefit off all individuals participating, it is imperative that there be a unified command structure in place to effectively coordinate and oversee the tasks that need to be accomplished. The need of a unified command was seen from the hardships faced in incidents, bringing forth the development of the Incident Command System that was designed to be used in an array of conditions, to bring all

“...there is no better profession than a humor columnist.” (16). In the collection of works from humor columns, Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, by Dave Barry, Barry humorously criticizes everyday activities and national occurrences. Barry utilizes similes moderately well to illustrate that integrating humor into daily or dreadful situations creates a cheerful, less serious atmosphere.

My answers were not funny to me at all. I was definitely wrong about how there was a moral in the story, but I now know that there was a sort-of moral to Mr. A reading the story. My 2nd answer was kind of funny. I said you wanted to be cool and different by being boring. My answers were not close at all. My answers tried to scratch the surface, but I failed miserably. I actually did give the assignment a lot of thought and I wanted to be closest to the answer as I possibly can. I really wanted to exercise my brain and master the concept. I don’t like to give crappy answers to an assignment, especially as a first impression.

An example of this is when Mark is trying to construct a potato farm on Mars. “Yeah. This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure. That was all sarcasm, by the way” (Weir, 40). Weir adds sarcasm in parts of the story where people are in tons of danger, or, in this case, going to die, to break the suspense and add some humor. Weir also adds humor in when Mark is bored and doing another useless journal entry. “How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense” (Weir 64). Weir adds in little bits of random humor, usually in the middle of something incredibly frightening, to show that in the center of all this, Mark still finds time to be bored. In this novel, Weir uses lots of humor to break up suspense and humor to establish a connection with the

Stephen Colbert addressed the class of 2015 for Wake Forest University in North Carolina in a commencement speech. In this speech Colbert utilized humor in giving advice to the graduating seniors about the future decisions they will be making. Stephen Colbert used “slang” vocabulary, volume and kinesics to deliver his speech effectively. I chose this speech because I have been following Stephen Colbert’s career with my dad since I was a kid. I have always found him entertaining and amusing so I knew by choosing this speech of his I would find it easy to analyze and because the speech was short and sweet clocking in at around fourteen minutes.

I have finished grading and entering the Humorist Argument Timed Essay from last Thursday. However, several of you will notice that your essay grade is missing in Synergy. Don't worry! Your essay is not "missing", but your peer review and self-scoring from Friday's class is. I will not enter your score without knowing that you have read, reviewed, and critiqued your own paper. Some of you were absent on Friday. Others did

And all the time we’ve spent growing up together means that he’s had as much of a part in developing my sense of humor as anyone. So, while I have tried to make this speech funny, it’s his fault if it’s not.

Olivia: Hello everyone, and thank you for attending my first comedy special (even though you didn’t have much of a choice)! Now, you all may be thinking, “Olivia, how are you even qualified to be making a comedy special; you’re just a plucky eighth grader who has no experience or expertise in writing comedy whatsoever.” To that I say, “I may be ‘just a plucky, adorable, charismatic, intelligent and quirky eighth grader with no previous experience or expertise,’ in your eyes perhaps, but I’ve got a lot of heart (and embarrassing moments to share in order to gain your approval and validation of my humor). You’re probably thinking, “Buzzfeed articles are going to be funnier than her.” Well, I’ll have you know that Buzzfeed is hilarious, multiple articles of theirs are flooding my Pinterest board, (yes, I am a thirty year-old woman, but we’ll get to that later), as well as results to some of their ingenious quizzes such as: “What frozen yogurt flavor are you?”