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    The Silly Jokes For Kids

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    major reasons why kids are usually drawn to people is because of their abilities to make them happy and keep them laughing all the way to a happy ending. Trust me; no one can resist a charmer, let alone kids. It is easy to tickle a child’s sense of humor. You just have to have a good joke and get your silly goofy face on board. That kid will fall in love with you instantly.

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    politics, religion, or current events, humorists such as stand-up comics to late-night television hosts are able to find a common ground. In order to get a positive reception from their audience, many television hosts place the issues aside and poke humor at the irony of the topic or person. For example, Jimmy Fallon, current host of The Tonight Show, is able to get his audience to laugh at political jokes because he does not directly tackle major, philosophical issues such as abortion, but talks about

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    Beyond A Joke Essay

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    Humor or joke has always been part of the behavioural collection of “modern Homo sapiens for thousands of years” (Polimeni, 2006). Joke or humor, being its conventional meaning, is the focus of some studies conducted from logical, mental, sociological and linguistic perspectives. While other researchers working within the first three fields may regard humor as a phenomenon, linguists talk about humour as analysing its semantic and pragmatic devices which leads to various studies regarding humor.

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    The Role of Humor in Nonfiction: The Entertaining Truth While others may not find your humor funny, keeping the attention of the reader is important to break up the monotony. Humor is used in various types of literature and different ways in our lives. It is a part of life, that can add character to any form of writing or comedy. Humor means, to amuse, entertain or have fun with someone, using witty sayings or action. Using humor in writing can break up the monotony of the story and keep the attention

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    Humor is the art of turning something serious, and sometimes even heartbreaking into something that makes people laugh until they can’t breathe. As well as being incredibly entertaining, the skill of making something funny can be used to change the world. In his book Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton correctly argues that the role of humorists as messengers of taboo or restricted topics is vital to society. When presented with a serious topic, many people shy away out of fear of being offensive, but

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    Satire has a long-standing tradition of inspiring change with humor, but what makes a great satirist? Ideally, every satirist would have the elements found in the Axis of Awesome and “A Modest Proposal”. These words would be accessible to their intended audience and those they are satirizing; both of these groups are important to consider separately as these two are not always the same thing. This element is necessary because the audience cannot recognize the satire or do anything about it if they

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    P: Frank Bruni, Editorial, He wants to be perceived as an intelligent, open-minded and efficient writer. E: October 17, 2017, Pumpkin spice is extremely popular flavor/scent A: People who enjoy pumpkin spice, people who don’t particularly like pumpkin spice. People interested in learning about this writer’s opinion of pumpkin spice P: To Entertain People with a story about pumpkin spice, while voicing his own opinion Frank Bruni, wrote an editorial on October 17, 2017, to entertain people

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    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. In the sword and shield metaphor the audience faces two contrasting sides that deal with stereotype humor. The first side is the sword

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    Traditional Satire

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    Between-subjects design will be used to determine the effects of humor types on audiences’ knowledge and attitudes. This study will divide subjects into two groups: treatment group will watch satire videos, the control group will watch non-satirical humor videos. After watching the video clips, both groups will answer the same questionnaires. Stimulus: This study will operationalize ‘Traditional Satire’ by using different video clips that have been taken from the shows ‘The Late Show with Stephen

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    different ways to get you to laugh, and to get other people to laugh. In my book, 101 Ways To Bug Your Teacher, by Lee Wardlaw, the author uses various elements of humor, such as dialect, plot twist, and Irony in my book to make the reader laugh. The end result of my book is hilarious because of how well the author incorporates these elements of humor. First, the author uses dialect, or a certain way someone or a group of people talk to make the audience laugh. In my book, the author designs the character’s

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