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    Maz Jobrani Stereotypes

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    to read about an iranian comedian show? Well today is your lucky day. The comedians name is Maz Jobrani .He jokes about Iranian stereotypes. Maz uses a lot of humor in his jokes to make them make people laugh. He will 100% make you laugh. In a comedy show Maz Jobrani jokes about Iranians are “terrorists” and when he encounters a guy that thought Maz was his ride and Maz thought the guy was his ride. Maz uses humor to make the audience laugh because if he didn't some people might get really offended

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    Stereotype Stereotypes

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    Like Maz Jobrani says, “Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often”. Stereotypes do exist because there is some truth to them; although, sometimes stereotypes are made without the complete truth and that’s when the become insulting. Even thought their might be some truth to stereotypes, they really shouldn’t be used. Stereotypes are placed on people unfairly, and they can affect us all. Stereotypes can be defined as an idea that many people believe

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    “Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful” - Margaret Mead. It is important for us to understand what stereotypes are because its is something that happens to someone every single day. Stereotypes impact society everyday because someone will take a group of people either their age is the same or their color, but that person will think that

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    Muslims Laugh Analysis

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    out? In the article “What Makes Muslims Laugh”, by Maz Jobrani, Maz comes across a few startling discoveries about the differences in comedy between the United States and countries in the Middle East. Maz Jobrani first started touring the Middle East in 2007 with a tour called the “Axis of Evil Comedy”. Once he began touring he found out a major issue, people in the Middle East have a very different sense of humor than people from the U.S. Maz would travel to different venues and the promoters

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    If you like to laugh then you will like Maz. He made me laugh so he will make you laugh. in Maz’s comedy routine he will express his own feelings towards what has happened to him and what has happened in the real world. Maz Jobrani uses great word choice and structure to present muslims in a positive light by using his past experiences and his accents he also makes different points in his jokes like, not every middle easterner has an accent. At the start he was explaining to the crowd that

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    over price yogurt by the gram?maz jobrani uses his comedy so well because he got his audience to laugh at a weird man trying to sell him frozen yogurt. He uses structure in his jokes by changing his voice when makes joke. First,maz uses effectively structure in his jokes so he can make his fans,ready for the punchlines because. they are well prepared for the punchlines more members of of the audience to find his comedy funny. For example, punchlines maz explain “the man like good stuff

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    Examples Of Stereotypes

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    quickly just because of someones appearance or the way they speak. As a society, people must be careful to not oversimplify others, and throw them into groups of ideas on how they speak or act. Additionally, in another interview with Guy Raz, Maz Jobrani says, “I mean, you could have a thousand Iranian or Arab doctors saving lives every day in the United States. And the lack of exposure that would get compared to one Muslim trying to blow up a car bomb in Times Square like the Pakistan

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    because people make assumptions about other peopl. This impacts our society because some groups of people are judged and treated unfairly because of stereotypes. In another interview with Guy Raz, Maz Jobrani says that “stereotypes exist because there’s always some truth to stereotypes”. (Raz, Guy, and Maz Jobrani)Jobrani’s statement means that stereotypes aren’t necessarily false but shouldn’t be applied to every person within a certain group. Generalizations about a whole communities of people based

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    Stereotype Essay

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    Have you ever felt the impacts of a stereotype? Stereotypes can sometimes make people feel unwanted around people and possibly uncomfortable in their own skin. There’re many different types of stereotypes but they all impact us negatively. Stereotypes can be defined as judgments that people make about others without knowing them personally, and stereotypes impact our society in many ways. For example, in an interview with Guy Raz from NPR, Jamila Lyiscott says that “You have this lens where you’re

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    Humor In Stand Up Comedy

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    A Discourse Analysis of Maz Jobrani’s Stand-up Comedy 1. Introduction 1.1 Background This is a study of humor in stand-up comedy, focusing on analyzing a script using the Cooperative Principle and Flouting the Maxims by Grice (1975). Humor is used in our daily life to address social, cultural or political issues in an entertaining manner. Repeatedly, people express their opinion and ideas with short, funny, exaggerating, dramatic and sarcastic ways to achieve certain effects, thereby they could

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