Monday, January 25, 2010



This is my exaple for visual satire. Visual satire is mainly political cartoons and in this picture, it is making President Bush look silly.


An example of deadpan humor is Chealsea Handler. She has her own show called Chealsea Lately. Everytime she is interviewing the celebrity who is on her show, she will ask them questions in a joking matter but have a very serious face which confuses the celebrity and is also funny at the same time.

An example of reversal is Mr. Mom which is a movie. This movie is about a family and the father loses his job and the wife, who is usually a stay at home wife, finds a job. That means the father has to now stay home to watch his three young kids. Mr. Mom is an example of reversal because it switches the roles of the good house wife and the working father.
http://www.fancast.com/movies/Mr.-Mom/32545/614382976/Mr.-Mom/videos

"It will take time to restore chaos and order."
-President George W. Bush
This is an example of malapropism. In order for something to be a malapropism, someone must say something but accidentally use the wrong word resulting in the sentence not making sense. George Bush did this many times and it came to be known as Bushisms. He said he would restore chaos but that is one thing you do not want restored.

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