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Chris An

Generalization -- A basic group of ideas, concepts, information (stereotypes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8E8L5c9WI

Freddie Wong does a great job with using the tone playful mocking, because during his video he continuously jabs at Asian stereotypes as well as the reactions of the other cast members help in bringing out the humor in these stereotypes. The way Freddie stays in character helps in creating a humorous atmosphere instead of a hostile environment, because he does at time provokes the audience, but he makes sure not to cross the line and manages to bring a smile to the audience.

Chris An

Understatement -- When the author does not explain or relay the full magnitude of a situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTjBjejlNE

Ian and Anthony (Smosh) do a fantastic job in captivating their audience with their belittling tone against one another. In the video Ian's handling of the gun situation is very humorous as he continously says to the robber, "You don't have the guts" to shoot anyone. However, the robber does have the guts, but Ian denies it. Ian's belittling of the full magnitude of the gun situation makes this usually tense scene into a fictitious mocking scene as he allows people to get shot.

Chris An

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The tone carefully arranged in which it takes an innocent jubilant confession into a comically cynical scene. At first sight, this seems to be those over-rated elementary loves with the confession note, but out of nowhere it turns into a serious scene as the cop takes the girl away and the boy is just smiling. Although to the audience it seems really wrong and absurd that the little boy would send the girl to jail, but the sequence of each scene makes it nearly impossible to just not smile as the boy changes the words "date me" to "kill the president".

Chris An

Inherently Funny Words -- Words that simply make people laugh.
Vomitory: An entrance cutting through the seats of a theater. Turdiform: Having the form of a bird http://www.inherentlyfunny.com/cat-3-funny_words.html

These words display there tone as being used in a facetious situation. These words are funny because the words in them such as "vomit"ory and "turd"iform are something that stands out to the audience. Moreover, for some strange reason, most of the population is quite amused by the words that apply to the body.Therefore, making the audience smile or atleast chuckle at the sight of these words, even though the word "vomit" and "turd" have nothing to do with the definition of the words vomitory and turdiform.

This is a perfect example of an oxymoron because the light is telling the person that it is safe to walk while also saying caution it isn’t safe you must wait for it to be clear. But which does it really mean. Angela Walker This is a good example of double Entrendre because the alien is thinking of his jobs the he must do as an Alien, while the human being is laughing at the duties could possibly mean his in the bathroom duties. Josh: I am tired of being number two! Number two stinks!
 * __Angela Walker__ **
 * __Oxymoron:__ a figure of speech by ****[|which] **** a  location produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. **
 * __Double Entendre __: is a [|figure of speech] in which a spoken [|phrase] is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often //risqué// or <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">[|ironic] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Drake: (snickering) Number two stinks...

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Josh: Grow up! — [|Drake & Josh] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a fine example from Drake and Josh the popular Nickelodeon T.V. show. This is Josh saying he is tired of being the second best and no one appreciating him while he is working at the movie theater. Saying he doesn’t want to be that person anymore to his step brother Drake who got a job at that movie theater and got a higher position when it was Josh that did all of the work to get him to that position while Drake took all of the Credit. Drake started laughing because Josh said “Number 2”. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Angela Walker
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Caricature __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">: ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">a. ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. b. The art of creating such representations. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a good caricature of Konan O’Brien. Depicting the fearful side of him, in a way creating an image that the real him is afraid and who he pretends to be is the one we really see on TV. That his real attitudes may me frightened to speak so forwardly about issues that are extremely serious and then twisting them into something that is supposedly supposed to be funny. But can in fact hurt the people he playfully mocking. __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Riddle: **__**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">A question or statement so framed as to exercise one' ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">singenuity <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum. A puzzling question, problem, or matter. A puzzling thing or person. Any enigmatic or dark saying or speech. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Angela Walker **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">You are starving and have to choose between two pieces of meat that have been sitting out in the same place for the same length of time. One has a few maggots on it, the other appears fresh. Which one should you choose?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Pick the one with maggots on it. The flies would lay their eggs on each equally, so they should both have maggots. The fact that one has no maggots suggests it has been poisoned.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a good example of a riddle because there are two ways you could go, and its trying to figure out the true meaning behind the question. asking which ti choose meat with maggots or meat without maggots that have been left out an equal amount of time. and suggesting that the one without the maggots has been poisoned and that the maggots died.


 * __Parody:__** The use of common and respected structures that contain mocking or uncommon topics

Youtube video to "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al Yankovic []

How/Why this is funny: "Weird Al" Yankovic covers the original song, "Ridin' Dirty" by Chamillionaire, in a way that gently mocks the style of the music as well as the music video. The originial song is about a gangster type man singing about the police catching him. Weird Al's version, "White and Nerdy", rhymes the words of the chorus with the original, as well as portrays the complete opposite character in the video. The effect on the listener/watcher is hilarious because they compare a "pimped out" gangster with a star-wars loving, dungeons-and-dragons playing nerd. The contrasting themes are quite humorous.

__**Hyperbole:**__ Very exaggerated statements, obvious sarcasm

Youtube video to Superbowl Doritos commercial []

How/Why this is funny: In this commercial, a man is teasing his girlfriend's dog through the glass door with a Dorito chip. Very epic music begins to play as the pug runs in slow motion toward the door. The whole time, the man is teasing it by saying "get the chip!" or "you want the chip?". Finally, the pug knocks down the door, squashing the man, and the viewer sees it eating out of the chip bag. Success. The exaggeration of the strength of the pug to knock down the door, purely by motivation of the Dorito, is hilariously used to promote the product. Also, the fact that it is a Superbowl commercial gives it permission to be so irrationally exaggerated. :)

__**Inversion/Reversal:**__ When characters or concepts shift positions of power or identification

How/Why this is funny: In the movie, //Despicable Me,// the main character, Gru, is a villain, he wants to take over the planet and be the most powerful bad guy ever. His personality changes, though, when he becomes attached to the three orphan girls he adopted for one of his schemes. This is humorous for the audience because Gru is seemingly the most unlikely father figure these three young girls could look up to.

__**Pun:**__ Using a word with more than one meaning in a specific context

How/Why this is funny: This picture uses a pun on the word "cookies". The humor comes from the fact that Cookie Monster loves the baked goods more than anything, so when his computer asks him to delete the tracking cookies, he is apalled. The audience finds it funny because they know that the cookies are not to be eaten, but Cookie Monster still does not want them to be gone!

Jordan Cordova http://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonview.asp?catref=abrn601
 * Incongruity-- When something is out of place or inappropriate behavior.**

This comic does a good way of showing something that is "out of place." In the classic childhood story of __//Little Red Riding Hood//__, it is well known that the Wolf in fact dresses up as Little Red's grandma and ends up eating her, but this twists the story. Instead of the wolf coming out on top and in fact tricking Red, Red actually is injecting some sort of medication that was meant for her actual grandma. This is out of place because this is in fact NOT the ending of the original story. All audiences that are familiar should be able to share a chuckle at this comic because of how inappropriate behavior that is expected.

Jordan Cordova

**Surprise-- When something is unexpected, an action or ending.**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TkEvBVF5dE

There are many clips that show what a surprise truly is. In all of these short clips, the "victim" of the surprise is just expecting a normal day to day activity when something is altered or changed and scares or "surprises" them. The humor found within this action is in fact the reaction of the person being surprised. Most people will fall, scream, or run away in fear (a.k.a surprise) and seeing another persons downfall is another persons humor. This video in fact portrays surprise in a really colorful way because it shows more than one person being surprised.

Jordan Cordova

**Distortion-Alteration of shape, concept, person, time.**
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/388345925_503cb1c158_o.jpg

This picture shows humor through the alteration of a mans face. The enlarged eyes and mouth and the tiny nose with the caption "Oh Nose," is humor in the mere idea that a human being is not supposed to look distorted. The small nose and over sized other facial features makes the audience laugh by the mere sight of the disfigured man and the witty caption that the creator uses to exaggerate the small nose.

Jordan Cordova

Deviation--To go off topic or off a path.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQb84PNxu5A

In the Disney Pixar children's tale UP, the lively dog Doug is a dog that speaks and has a short attention span. The humor is found when Doug is trying to explain who he was and where he got his collar, when he is quickly distracted by a squirrel and jumps away from the conversation then picks it right back up. Doug goes off topic and this is why it is funny.

Jordan Cordova

**Bathos--An abruption of transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMM5lowqnpY

In this episode of Saturday Night Live, actress Natalie Portman is asked to describe an average day in her life, and she responds with a witty but inappropriate rap. The rap itself is funny to the audiences that are familiar with Natalie Portman's films that she is not the type of person to be singing vulgar language. The fact that this was unexpected and almost a surprise is humorous within itself.