...The Penis In today’s society we all are all the slave of the good behavior. We all dress alike, we talk alike, we eat alike and our routines are very much alike each other. Therefore we need the humor to break the daily life. “The Penis” is a very good example for breaking up with taboos that live in today’s society. Here we see something that is so absurd, so the only way to react is to smile. It is so far away from our daily life, as a modern human being, in a modern society. “The Penis” is about a guy who gets hammered in the city, and the next day he finds a penis in his pocket. At the same time a famous porn star wakes up, also after a heavy night a drinking, realizing that his penis is missing. We later find out that the penis wasn’t happy with the porn star and decided to get its own life, which is very absurd because in reality a penis can’t “jump” off the body and get its own life. The porn star realizes that he is nothing without his penis, and the adventure of finding the penis and getting it operated back on the body is clearly described in “The Penis”. The taboos Taboos are often used in comedy. Mainly because it is breaking some personal lines for the reader/participant, and many people reacts on taboos with laughter or smiling. In today’s society there are a lot of taboos. Many of them are based on sex. We don’t talk about sex, we don’t see sex in the street picture, we don’t hear about sex etc. The title alone in “The Penis” is breaking a taboo. Because of...
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...mastered and are able to call upon at a moment’s notice. Whether it is stories about the comedians past or just something they saw, the best comedians are able to make a crowd of people laugh by just relaying the information. However, comedy is perceived differently in every person and it adds a degree of difficulty when one is trying to tell a joke. While the general population may think a joke is funny, there may be one, two, or even dozens of people who view the joke as insensitive or just not funny. There is a predominant theory that makes finding what people think is funny easier to narrow down known as benign violation theory, which breaks down what is and isn’t funny. To understand how benign...
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...Friend We make friends through different phases in our life. Although true friendships can begin very quickly, they do take time to build into lasting and valuable relationships. I met a true friend in my workplace. We spend lot of great time together and our friendship had endured through many years. My friend is a rare person to be with because he is funny, friendly, and faithful. First of all, one of my friend’s exceptional traits is being funny. My friend has a very good sense of humor and always has a way of saying something funny about anything. For instance, when we were together in a church service and we have this pastor who was more than 6-foot tall and weighs about 400 pounds. He asked me what would people say if he enters a room for the first time. In a low voice, he told me: “Oh, my God!’ Also, my friend is keeping a list of jokes he learned in a pocket notebook. So whatever the occasion and whatever the topic, my friend always have the joke of the moment. Once, we were discussing with a friend about rounding off numbers. He told us about a farmer who counted 196 cows in the pasture but when he rounded them off to his yard, he had 200. My friend also has the ability to mimic in a fun way the personality of many known people. For example, he can mimic the dancing steps of Michael Jackson, the facial expressions of Jim Carrey, how Donald Trump talks, and many others. In addition to being funny, my friend is also very friendly. It’s amazing to note the...
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...Hunter Miller Bus Stop Critique 4/2/14 The name of the play was Bus Stop, and the playwright is William Inge. The play was presented at Dyersburg State Community College theatre in Dyersburg, TN. Mrs. Meliah Lewis directed the play. The play was presented on March 27th through the 29th. I saw the play on the 29th. The play starts in a diner called Grace’s Diner. Set in the 1950s a terrible blizzard comes through the town. The bus stop right outside of the diner has a bus stop. When the final bus of the night stops in, the sheriff is notified that the highway patrol has closed the road out of town towards the bus’ destination, Montana. The very diversified group of passengers on the bus are then forced to spend the night in the diner until morning. The driver of the bus and owner of the diner are interested in each other and end up going to the owners’ apartment above the diner. The professor on the bus ends up trying to sweet talk the waitress at the diner. The waitress unknowingly agrees to meet up with professor later in the week, and ends up finding out the professor isn’t a professor at all. There are two cowboys on the bus from a ranch in Montana. One of the cowboys has pretty much kidnapped at singer from a club and is in love with her and telling her they are getting married against her will. The sheriff of the town stays around the diner to make sure that the singer is well protected and respected by the cowboy. The cowboy doesn’t listen to well and ends up...
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...analytical theory that is used to compare and evaluate articles, novels, and other literary sources. For instance, the classification of gay vs. straight with Arjie and his family is a direct example of postmodernism in the novel, Funny Boy. In similarity, Sinhalese vs. Tamil is another comparison that represents the anger of Ammachi towards Anil. Funny Boy follows a protagonist, Arjie, who has yet to find his true identity but continues to build different relationships with different characters. The story elaborates on the civil war between the Tamil and the Sinhalese which has a deep connection with the different relationships created throughout the story. These relationships; gay and straight, Tamil and Sinhalese, old and youth are what could be analyzed with the literary device, postmodernism. In the novel, Arjie begins narrating the story as a young Tamil boy who finds himself different from his entire family and his friends. He finds himself connected to a different side of sexuality as he plays a childish game called “bride-bride”. For many years he constantly volunteered to play the role of the female character even though male roles were still available. While he does this, he explores life through a female perspective and is soon titled as “funny” referring to gay. His parents are extremely aggravated and try to avoid their family reputation from being disgraced. In order to save it, they forcefully make Arjie play cricket with his older brother, so he can rediscover his...
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...important reason they are both entertaining in different ways is because Jeff Dunham uses characters and Eddie Murphy uses vulgar humor. Eddie Murphy has been around the entertainment circuit for much more years longer than Jeff Dunham but both are tremendously funny in person. Jeff Dunham is entertaining in his own right by using fictional characters to get the audience laughing aloud. I am comparing two of the best comedians today. They are Jeff Dunham and Eddie Murphy. I think they are both hilarious. They have their own ways of entertaining their audiences. Jeff Dunham uses ventriloquist puppets which are called characters. Their names are Walter, Peanut, Achmed the dead terrorist, and Bubba J. They all are very funny because they have different accents and they have their own quirks. Walter is shown as a grumpy old man that complains about everything. Peanut is a purple monkey that makes fun of everything he comes across he also has an endless amount of energy. Achmed is always talking about blowing stuff up. Bubba J is a beer-drinking redneck that likes to talk about NASCAR. Eddie Murphy uses raw humor which involves many cuss words on all different kinds of topics. For the most part he discusses his life and what occurred while he was growing up. Eddie Murphy is from Brooklyn, New York which my attribute to his way of making the audience laugh because of his accent and upbringing. Jeff Dunham is from Dallas, Texas and he...
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...floats down a canal in Venice being escorted by a beautiful young woman sitting next to a bunch of red roses whose long-brunette hair is moved by the wind while she is trying to get the gondolier’s attention. The scene is accompanied by romantic, slow, violin/fiddle music when a manly voice in a ton one recognizes out of fairytales pops in: “From the man who brought fantasy to life comes a hair product born into reality – Fabio. Beauty has a face. Perfection a name – Fabio.” Other imagery, such as a white horse, a same colored flower opening in slow motion, Fabio blowing petals into the camera and between it all a shampoo bottle labeled “Fabio, Shampoo Di Italia” are shortly introduced before the gondola passes under a bridge after Fabio reaches for one of the red roses. “And now you can experience a shampoo worthy of only one man’s…..” Suddenly the voiceover and music stop, the beautiful woman looks up and winces when she notices that Fabio has changed. He has become an old, grey haired grandpa holding the rose out trying to make his move. Than, a new, clear/hard voice cuts in: “Life comes at you fast. Be ready...
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...My father’s qualities Who has good qualities affect to you? With me, I have met many people have good qualities, but my father’s good qualities affect to me so much. My father is not the most perfect in the world but the way he lives, and the way he keep in touch with other people teach me a lot. The best his qualities are caring, helpful and fun. First, he is a caring person. This his quality makes people around him so amazing because in my country, most of the men don’t like that. They just go out for work and bring money back. My father work too, but he also take care of his family very well. When I was young, my mother was busy therefore my father fed me up, took a shower, and washed clothes for me. Sometimes, he also sang a song to make me sleep. When I grew up, he gave me a drive to go to school. He also helps my mother cook dinner every night, and he also teaches me to study Math. For specific, the first day I came here, I called for my mother, my voice was change because I cried too much, but lie her that I was sick. However, when I talked with my father, he realized that, he told me to be stronger, he can share everything with me, and I should stop to share. Why he can know that? I also asked this question with him when I was young. He told me because he is a Buddha therefore he can know all things about me, but now I know the real reason. That reason is because he always follows me, take care me, and spend his time to look at me so he can realize all...
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...is best known for her funny television show called “Ellen: The DeGeneres Show” and is one of the most interesting person to be known, however she was not always known as such. The instances in her early life have led to her career and the criticism that goes along with it. To begin with, Ellen was born January 26, 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana. Elle is known for her funny and bubbly personality, however she wasn't always like that. As a child DeGeneres was very shy...
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...millions of people’s hearts, especially mine. The fact that they sing about real situations and real issues that are going on the world today is what makes them my favorite band. Whether I am happy, sad, or mad, The Dave Matthews Band’s album “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” always lifts my spirits and puts me in a better mood; their songs are inspirational. One of the songs that touch me the most is called “Funny the Way It Is”. This song is about the good and bad things going on in the world. The point being made is that even though many wonderful things are happening, bad things are occurring at the exact same time. “Funny the way it is, if you think about it/ One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out/ Funny the way it is, not right or wrong/ On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born/ Funny the way it is, not right or wrong/ Somebody's broken heart become your favorite song/ Funny the way it is, if you think about it/ One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out” Not only does it discuss the fine times and poor times in life, but also how people take the privileges they have for granted. While kids say they hate school and drop out, there are others that appreciate an education and will do anything to get it, such as walking ten miles to school. Basically, the song tells listeners that there are so many ironic moments happening every minute of every day and people do not even realize it. I love this song’s message and the realness of...
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...Shyam Selvadurairs Funny Boy Analysis English Literature Essay Identity involves recognition of the self. It is not static, but it constantly changes in relation to political, cultural and social events that are occurring. A child's identity is negotiable. Children are presumed innocent and naïve until they have experienced life. Their sense of identity has not been determined if they have not had experiences in which they are able to determine their relationship to and how it affects them. In narrating or privileging a child's perspective in a novel, the language the reader is presented with is simplistic and the viewpoint of the narrator is often minimalistic as it is based upon the experiences which the narrator has encountered. Shyam Selvadurair's Funny Boy is narrated from an adolescent’s perspective, where the presumed innocence and naivety of the child offers an alternative view to the political, cultural, social and historical tensions in India and Sri Lanka and the effect that it has on the developing child in terms of identity. The child narrator in each text is an outsider as they do not merge with the cultural norms imposed upon by society. Arjie, the product of an upper-class Tamil family in Funny Boy, crosses borders in his awakening as a homosexual, falling in love with a Sinhalese, despite his parents attempt to create a masculine identity for him, in order that he may abide by the boundaries and social order that has been imposed upon him. The need to understand...
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...Video Priming on Altruism among randomly selected Far Eastern University students Kristine Bernadette Batusbatusan John Rovic Guides Christine Joie Macauba Maria Carmela Orfanel Far Eastern University Abstract This study focuses on the effects of emotions caused by video priming on altruism. The experimenters want to know if there is a significant effect between emotions and altruism. Some related articles were gathered and one study by Over H. and Carpenter M. (2009-10) showed that priming by photographs evoking affiliations actually increase altruism for toddlers. The experimenters want to prove the same for emotions but this time, taking into account funny and annoying videos to prime necessary emotions. Subjects were randomly selected and divided into two experimental groups. A group watched a funny video individually and the other group watched an annoying video individually. The experimenter then accidentally dropped a cup filled with marbles after the subject finished watching and observed whether the subject will help or not. A Helping Attitude Scale test was given afterwards. Results were obtained and suggested that emotions caused by video priming has nosignificant effect on the level of altruism of an individual. Explanations for this was gathered and it came out that the subjects, regardless of the videos, did what they felt to do whether to help the experimenter or not. The emotions they felt after watching the video did not in any way contribute to their...
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...If everybody stopped to read a book about their life, everybody would be reading a totally different book. Life is hard for most people, and for others it comes harder. My JROTC teacher Major Carthon says,” Life is rough, but it is rougher when you're stupid.” He is always saying that to me for some weird reason. Some people can fight through the trouble with humor while others sink into depression. I like to fill my world with humor and happiness; however, there will be tragic situations at least two times in our lives. If I wrote a book about my life, it would be a comedy and a tragic book. When I run into trouble, I tend to laugh in its face and walk away. When I was in high school, some of my “friends” tried to get in my car with some drugs. I laughed so hard in their face and drove away with them sitting on the sidewalk. When I get sick or in pain, I tend to laugh through the pain. A week ago, I woke up choking because my throat was closed. When I took my medicine, I started to laugh because I said to myself, “I am not going to go out like this!” When my mother is having a bad day at work, I would try my best to make her laugh. If my mom is sad, I would also get sad. However, I am not a sad person, so I try to make everybody cheerful when they are around me. When I was in high school I had a girlfriend. She would sometimes come to school gloomy. When I tried to cheer her up, she would get mad at me, but she already knew I wasn’t going to stop, so she would cheer up. ...
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...having a gun can be lifesaving. This approach is unethical based on a utilitarian approach. Advertisements can take on a humorous approach in certain situations, however when it comes to being attacked and needing a weapon is not the way to market firearms. Glock Company has had several commercials over the years that take on this approach. Searching youtube.com for gun commercials will find the first link to 4 of them and is labeled as “Funniest Top 4 Gun Commercials” (youtube.com) When dealing with guns and the situations where having one can be lifesaving and making it a funny situation hurts the victims and the families involved. It makes it seem like it’s not that big of a deal and the situation is easily solved with having a gun. Instead of promoting how to properly own and maintain a gun it is shown in the air of humor. When a victim is put into that situation and they have to take the life of an attacker it is no easy thing to do. Killing to survive is rough on anyone. Victims question if they did something wrong and even feel like they have ruined a lives. No matter what happens when someone is hurt with gun violence people require time to adjust and should even seek professional help to make sure they were not scarred from the incident. There is never just one person affected...
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...witty adjective, wit•ti•er, wit•ti•est. 1. possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer. 2. characterized by wit: a witty remark. 3. British Dialect . intelligent; clever. Example sentences As clever and witty as his writing is, youprobably wouldn't, because there is The production is witty , clever, and blessedly brief. He's kind and so funny-not goofy funny, witty funny-and gets along really great . They don't carry many plants, but the few they dohave the same witty edge many. silly adjective, sil•li•er, sil•li•est. 1. weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer. 2. absurd; ridiculous; irrational: a silly idea. 3. stunned; dazed: He knocked me silly. 4. Cricket. (of a fielder or the fielder's playing position) extremely close to the batsman's wicket: silly midoff. 5. Archaic. rustic; plain; homely. Example sentences Frustratingly, there are plenty of silly story elements that mar the program. They had known each other since eighth grade, sharing the silly private jokes. Throwing money at it without a plan to actuallyimprove it is silly . It is a predatory industry with far-reachingconsequences that can't be. limerick noun a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, andthe third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. giggle verb (used without object), gig•gled, gig•gling...
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