March 14, 2019
As the class started to fill up with kids, we noticed that something was missing. Somethings were missing. Then came in two strangers. These strangers sat at the head desks as if they were the new leaders of the class. The second they sat down, thunder boomed outside. If you were brave enough to look out the window, you saw it was raining blood. BLOOD. The lights in the classroom blew out. In the total darkness one could hear laughing. There was pure evil in the room. It was total chaos.
Today in class we were assigned to listen to last week's podcast (Podcast #3) and write our stream of consciousness as we listened. After listening and reading what you wrote down, you also had to write down goals for the next and final podcast. This podcast will be recorded on Monday instead of Friday.
For tomorrow's class we will finish our class movie Thank You for Smoking, which also will be discussed in a podcast. As you finish the movie, keep in mind the humor in the film, and how much it depends on the audience's viewpoints. For instance, some jokes make fun of Conservative stereotypes, such as Nick and his friends seeing which of their respective campaigns kill more people every year, which liberals will find funny. Other jokes make fun of Liberal stereotypes, such as the Senator getting angry they couldn't get a "...cancer kid in a wheelchair..." to boost sympathy towards his side on cigarettes, a joke geared for more Conservative audiences.
This "Satire Paradox" is found in a lot of comedies, where a joke is taken in a different form then it was originally intended. For instance, the movie Stripes, a 1980's Bill Murray flick, has a lot of humor focuses on subjects such as womanizing and politics. This doesn't stop woman or politicians from enjoying the film, since the characters that exhibit these traits are the stereotypical big dumb males. The "Satire Paradox" enables films to expand the audiences from always having two sides to the focus.
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