Rush Brimbaugh Satire

Comedy is a social and cultural practice and thus plays a pivotal role in every culture across the globe. Comedy makes us laugh, smile and most importantly, unite. The use of television programs within cultures around the world helps with expression and identification through the concept of National Identity. Andy Medhurst explains, ‘comedy plays an absolutely pivotal role in the construction of national identity’ as it invites us to belong by understanding and sharing the humour (Turnbull 2010, p.159). Throughout the world, the key elements for a successful comedic television series include humour and satire, yet across cultures, forms of humour and satire are not universal and must be altered to suit an audience in their specific culture.

United States president, George Bush, in his nation-wide speech, “9/11 Address”, establishes himself as an American citizen as well. Which encounters to make his speech powerful in many of the people’s eyes. As president, Bush is influencing Americans and terrorist by letting them know with warning and threat they will regret what they have done.

Satire can have many serious repercussions, including public backlash. Though satire can come off offensive, it is paramount to not censor who we are as people. Many comedies have and can cross the line of what people find acceptable in modern day America. Albeit our constitution guarantees the right to liberation of speech, it is often challenged by the public who find some satirical comedy to be morally disputable. As our society grows, so does our consciousness on what is politically correct and falls under our moral values. As of 1776, our expressive rights have been laid out in our constitution. Often satire can cause controversy and can even, in extreme cases leads to violence. Since satire can be interpreted in many contrasting ways, people argue over the meaning of the satirical content which can potentially raise red flags.

In this futuristic society, the world is comprised of “the World State” and controlled by a dictatorial government that doles out a drug called Soma to ensure happiness. The drug is a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology. Uses as a metaphor in the novel, Soma’s effects on society remove individual freedoms and promotes social stability. The story doesn’t explain the pharmacology of Soma; however, it seems to be a mix of a narcotic and a hallucinogenic drug. Today, it is ironic that there is now a drug called "Soma" which is a muscle-relaxant on the market in the United States. In 1996, it was thought to be non-addictive. However, doctors now understand that it is highly addictive and it is now classified as

Animal House’s shadow is so long that even comedies that shoot for this gold standard, yet fall well short, can still be considered artistic and commercial successes, if not classics, in their own right. John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky: A drunken degenerate with his own style, in his seventh year of college, with a GPA of 0.0. The film epilogue reveals that he eventually became a United States senator.

The cowboy way of life has been around the United States of America for a long time and has grown to even be a competitive sport, not only a lifestyle. There is one very difficult section of the sport in particular that comes along with being a cowboy, bull riding. While risking one’s own health, a cowboy is to mount a bull and ride it for eight full seconds; all while being graded by judges and receiving fifty points from the bull’s performance and fifty points from his own performance. The Ride is an effective documentary for an audience of young college students with little knowledge of the sport of bull riding that are looking to learn more about it.

A sitcom is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, with often humorous dialogue (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Some of today's top sitcoms are Big Bang Theory, Family Guy, and South Park; however, back in the 60s the top television sitcoms wereThe Andy Griffith Show, The Lucy Show, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Unlike modern day sitcoms, 60s sitcoms, mainly The Andy Griffith Show, used down-to-Earth comedy and moral lessons to attract viewers.

In the entertainment world, there are many forms of humor that appeal to certain kinds of people. The most popular forms of humor of today’s culture is slapstick, parody, irony, and, satire. High rated comedy shows like the Family Guy and the Simpsons focus their content on these types of humors. Although, there are comedy shows that take their humor too far like Robot Chicken. It’s a parodic show the mocks popular culture, using movies, games, toys, and tv shows as reference. There are some clips in Robot Chicken that are amusing, but most of its content is so violent and disturbing that it gives a warped view of childhood innocence. Since parodies are so popular, there are plenty of people who find this show funny.

“If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It 's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites” (Horsey 2009).For many years, political cartoons were used to depict and convey big issues or ideas into small pictures that the reader would understand. It helped people that were not educated to also be aware of the situation. But, these political cartoons only showed one side of a controversy and this created turmoil among the audience.

Satire is the effective use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize stupidity, often in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Satire is used to make a point that stands out, that will be noticed by the public. Evidence of satire living on television is on the news show “The Project”, as their slogan says, it is the news delivered differently, utilising satire to engage its audience. The media use satire as a way to get out information in a manner that will entertain the viewers and stay tuned. This is shown in the “Utopia” episode “Very Fast Turnover”, as the dreamer Jim wants any idea that will amaze the people of Australia whether it is feasible or not.

Joseph Heller is the first author ever to write about soldiers and the military in a different way than you usually see. When Joseph Heller began to write “Catch-22” in 1953 and published the novelle October 11, 1961. His take on war meshed perfectly with the anti-authoritarian that came of age in the 1960’s. In August 1994 Joseph Heller flew on a mission over the French town of Avignon. After that mission, Heller really understood that its really not an abstraction. “They are out to kill me personally¨(¨Joseph Heller¨).

The impact of Heller’s choice of a satiric writing style has on the novel Catch 22.

Purposeful publicity is a vital component of an able government, To wind up a "perfect" resident, one must do all the specified to accommodate one 's country. Publicity is no simple deed; Publicity is a battle of trepidation. Trepidation is characterized as “a rational reaction to an objectively identified external danger” (Jossett, 47). Yet, what constitutes as “rational”? For instance, however bended in truths, if one is continually being influenced that another nation speaks to a risk, then one is left to assume that that other nation is an adversary. With a blast of false information, one starts to assume that this information is bona fide as an aftereffect of anxiety. In this way, after repetitive informaiton anything gets the chance to be

It’s rare that a work of religious satire actually promotes faith as a whole, but that is the case in Cat’s Cradle, where Kurt Vonnegut spends more time discussing- or at the very least admitting to- the good things about faith and spirituality than he does criticizing religion. This is not to say that Vonnegut’s work is a glowing endorsement of all Gods and Holy Men- Vonnegut’s criticism of organized religion is harsh and total. All the same, the text does promote a sense of spirituality and connectivity with the world that is never contested. In short, Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle bitterly criticizes the habits and beliefs of organized religion, but stops short of criticizing (and in many ways endorses) the wide variety of good things which can

The role of media in the society presented in the novel by George Orwell, 1984 cannot be underestimated nor can the commentary about the possible future in the novel be ignored. One of Orwell’s astute observations about politics and society that forms the axis around which his novel 1984 is tshat the media have an incredible degree of influence with respect to shaping thought. While the responsibility of journalism, whether in print or electronic format, is to inform the citizens of facts (Kosicki 114), the fact of the matter is that the media are by no means neutral (Cohn 25).