John Oliver Satire

Jamie and Mark Roberts of Forteau posted a picture of themselves paddling around in a puddle in the main road of their town using an inflatable dinghy. This is to show the terrible conditions of their road.

In Rick Reilly’s Fair Game, the author makes heavy use of satire to ridicule the amount of expensive gear many hunters use in the pursuit of their prey, and in turn encourage hunters to try and make do with the essentials. The article could be classified as juvenalian satire, as he paints a picture of a hunter that spends an obscene amount of money on random hunting supplies who nonetheless still considers himself superior to other hunters for his “barebones” approach. Reilly does this in several ways throughout the piece, using parody, understatement, and bathos in separate instances. The hunter in this article is a parody, though he does not represent any one person.

Pickle Sandwich My show pitch for a single season program is a very unique one and may not be all that popular, but it’s still worth a try. This premise of the show is that a young boy named Jeremy who lives in Baltimore eats a pickle from his local convenience store when he’s 16, and it’s his first ever pickle. He falls in love with its sour taste and crunchy texture and begins to craves pickles every minute of every day. With this new found craving, he begins to search nonstop for restaurants that serve new pickle dishes, fried pickles, pickles on burgers, etc. The plot twist comes in hard on the second episode.

In the mock press release from The Onion, the author satirically mocks how products are marketed to consumers. Playing on the stereotype of gullible consumers ready to believe anything they hear about a product is true, the author creates a parody of typical medical commercials. The author combines many satirical strategies and adds in humorous moments in order to critique ad campaigns that use false claims and the ignorant customers that buy from them. In the article, the writer lays on a false sense of ethos.

In his article “If We’re Gonna Have Guns, Let’s Get ‘em Out in the Open--Or Else,” Mike Royko utilizes a satirical tone to express how he feels the gun law passed in Kennesaw, Georgia is a childish and impractical one. This law, which was passed in the early 1980s, requires all citizens to have a gun and ammunition in their homes. The first example demonstrated is the utilization of diction. In his article, Royko uses words such as “obvious,” blazing away,” and “meet his maker” which expresses a childish and satirical attitude toward the subject. This shows that Royko didn’t take the Kennesaw gun law seriously and felt that it was a childish and impractical one. Another technique used was a the contradictory statement, “That might surprise

Laughter is a crucial thing in our everyday lives and is something you will inevitably do when you are reading Shel Silverstein's poems. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Uncle Ben found a mouse in the house or what a woman in a mink coat fought for? In all of his poems Shel Silverstein uses humor to make a connection with the reader. Shel Silverstein was a jack of all trades, not only was he a fantastic author, but he was also a musician! Although in Shel Silverstein's work he does not have a deeper meaning or connection to his life, often times his poems have a moral. In all of Shel Silverstein’s poems, you can see his creative and humorous sides.

Imagine a world where everyone was accepted, no matter where they came from. It’s a dream world, am I right? Everyone has to come up in the world, and make their own place for themselves. Well, in Fresh off the Boat, Eddie Huang has to do this in the suburban world of Orlando. Being Taiwanese, he does not exactly fit into the stereotypical ‘American’ life. So, in this series, he and his family work hard to live the American dream.

This article by “The Onion” shows many satirical strategies, mostly hyperbole to satirize how products, in this case Magna Soles, are marketed to consumers. This article is filled with hyperbole and a lot of big words that I have never heard before, like “kilofrankels” and “comfortrons.” This makes me laugh because I don’t think most of the words I’ve never heard before in hear are real, and how much they are exaggerated in sentences to try and show the consumers that these are the best shoes in the world. The hyperbole being shown here is just like the exaggeration of McDonalds or Burger King commercials, with the giant burgers all shiny and juicy filled with colorful lettuce, tomato and cheese, just how it is portraying the Magna Soles.

John Oliver is a reputable television personality and has had his own show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, since 2014 where he takes a comedic approach to commenting on politics and current events. That plays into his initial credibility however, he builds upon that in order to earn credibility by exhibiting charisma. According to our textbook,"Charisma is a word that is frequently used to describe people who are particularly effective public speakers; it is a certain magnetic quality involving a persuader’s ability to command and compel an audience." At around 1:02 in the video above, you can hear the audience roaring with laughter as Oliver was able to command his audience with a comment on the boredom associated with net neutrality.

Once again this adheres to the opinions that the Democratic audience held towards Trump supporters, and humorously satisfies the audience as they perceive NBC as validating their pre-existing opinions that Trump supporters are indeed lethargic, superficial, and oblivious. In result this bolsters the reputation of NBC in the eyes of the Democratic audience, thus effectively gaining a larger audience due to the marketing concept above. NBC retroactively confirms the opinions the majority of its audience already had on Trump supporters, effecting their outlook on NBC in a positive way, and thus effectively portraying Trump supporters as lethargic, superficial, and

So I watched an episode of South Park recently and that got me thinking, how is something as offensive as this be all right to be put onto national television without angering hundreds and thousands of people? For those of you that don’t know what South Park is, it’s basically an animated sitcom series that has attracted huge hordes of followers ever since it first aired in 1997. It’s quite famous along side shows such as Family Guy, American Dad and Futurama which all seem to focus along the lines of shocking plots, their critical outlook on celebrities criticism and false depiction of religion and politics. This, of course, led to many complaints from the audience about how some of the episodes that have been broadcasted seem to really offend

The viewpoint of the political cartoon is that no one takes Al Gore seriously. The word serious is in the cartoon and AL Gore is dressed as a penguin, which is funny. The cartoon is horatian because Al Gore dressed in a penguin suit is humorous. The content creator used sarcasm and caricature in the cartoon. The sarcastic part of the cartoon is Obama asking us to take global warming seriously. Caricature is used by Al Gore dressed as a penguin.

While there are many ways to deliver a message to a person. Whether it be sitting them down and simply telling them, watching it on the news, or even getting it by carrier pigeon, there are infinite ways to deliver a message but there are none quite like John Oliver. Sure, there are various other comedic news shows such as the Colbert Report but they shy in comparison to John Oliver and the show he hosts known as Last Week Tonight. His delivery and overall persuasion is very effective and specifically in his segment on Municipal Violations, he is just that; persuasive and effective. In his segment on Municipal Violations, John Oliver fulfills the 4 methods of persuasion effectively, enhances his speech using various literary tools, and while his channel may be an obstacle to some, it is not for him.

South Park - it either makes you cringe or grin ear to ear. The latter will most likely be the result for the millennial crowd. With the show closing in on two decades it remains as strong and relevant as it was in 1997. However, it isn't entirely without fault given the amount of time Matt and Trey shrewdly concoct an episode. The one week deadline has on very rare occasions diminished the core viewers expectation. But more often what usually follows are extremely memorable moments that wrapped the remaining season in comedic gold. Even when the internet naysayers give their untimely goodbyes to the show at any point in its existence it still manages to be head and shoulders above anything else in the genre (such a thing?). The show has earned

In a society run by wealthy monarchs and unequal amounts of power, Utopia brings this satirical representation of an ideal republic into stark detail. The world around Thomas More was widening as brave explorers, sponsored by the nobility, were making their way around the world. He begins his book by alluding to this burst of exploration by talking to Raphael Hythloday who “discovered” Utopia. Subtly criticizing English society More writes that Raphael finds fault in English society with the execution of thieves. He thinks the thieves should be pitied and then helped to become better citizens. More also writes that the holding of land by the oligarchs, and other wasteful social actions lead to a society that produces thieves, "…what else is