Satire
Workshop, Part I: The Irony of Satire
Humor Vs.
Satire: Which one is humorous and which
one is satirical? What crucial element
distinguishes one from the other?
- Professor Dillinger is so
hard that it took me the half the semester to figure out I wasn’t even in
his class!
- Professor Dillinger gives out
so many F’s that even the janitors fail his afternoon trash
collection.
- Professor Dillinger goes out
of his way to help and encourage student success. In fact, just last week, he didn’t just
give me a 36 on my exam, but gave me a 36 on the next one so I wouldn’t have to go through all that trouble
studying. What a guy!
“Bush
Earmarks 1.5 Billion Gold Stars for Education”
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Vowing to give the nation’s public schools “a much-needed boost,”
President Bush announced Monday that his 2003 budget proposal would allocate
1.5 billion gold-star stickers for education.
“As class sizes continue to grow and test scores continue to decline,
our public schools are in a state of crisis...There is no more time for
deliberation. It is time to act. Our children need these adhesive gold stars.”
Bush went
on to describe the “alarming state” of many of the nation’s public schools,
citing underpaid teachers, buildings badly in need of repair, and woefully
outdated textbooks. “If a child is going
to learn under these conditions, he or she is going to need lots of
encouragement...These gold stars will serve as reinforcement for our best
students while motivating underachievers to do better. I know it made a big difference to me as a
child. Bush said the stars, which are
expected to cost the government an estimated $2.3 thousand, are well worth the
expense. “Can we really put a price tag
on the future of our nation?” Bush asked.
“Can we ever put a dollar amount on success?”
Laid-Back Company Allows Employees To
Work From Home After 6 pm
GRESHAM, OR—Underscoring the benefits of
working for a laid-back company like SocialFire Marketing, founder and CEO Matt
Avalon told reporters Tuesday he had instituted an office-wide policy
permitting employees to work from home anytime after 6 p.m. “If it helps them
be efficient and get more done, I have no problem with people working remotely
once they’ve left the office for the day,” said Avalon, who noted that as long
as they’re doing their jobs, the location where his staff members choose to
work between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. is “completely up to them.” “That’s the kind of
relaxed culture we strive to create here—one where you can even be working from
your living room couch at two in the morning if you’d like.” Avalon added that
since they don’t have to be in the office for any meetings, employees are free
to work from home on weekends and holidays as well.
SATIRICAL
HEADLINES: How
many of the following headlines can you explain to the satirically-challenged?
In other words, what is each one making fun of through irony?
·
Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President
·
CIA says that Syria Harboring More Than 15 Million Known
Arabs
·
Nation’s Shirtless, Shoeless March on Washington
·
Thin, Attractive Woman Accepted For Who She Is
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