Satire Blog #1
In my opinion, satire is so popular because people want get the humor out of situations and problems that happen in our daily lives. Life becomes more enjoyable if you are able to be able to laugh at some things that aren’t truely very funny. I think people like finding the humor in things because it opens peoples minds to ideas that they never thought of before. Borat is considered satire because it makes fun of many steryotypes that exist today with with Jews, women, muslims and all. He pretty much expresses what people think is mean and makes it into something funny, while Scary Movie is really just a parody of many scary movies. What it does is it takes movies that are naturally meant to make you scared and make it into one movie that makes people laugh. Scary movies aren’t real to begin with, so you can’t make a satire on something that doesn’t exist. I personally love satire. Last year we made satirical cartoons in Ms. Blumenthal’s class, and i had a really good one. I think that if you can find humor in something, then express to the people around to see if they like it or not. Some of my favorite satires are The Colbert Report and I also really like satirical cartoons because it isn’t only the joke aspect of it, but also for the drawing to show something too.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
I think Colbert’s character is absolutely brilliant–especially because the leadership of both major parties had to warn their Congresspeople either not to go on his show or to be really careful when they do.