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Max Yuhas; Period 5

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver http://youtu.be/l9qA8c-E_oA

1. The clip is funny because it discusses a salmon cannon. Yes, a salmon cannon: a seemingly ridiculous invention that is sarcastically praised for being the greatest invention ever, that is actually extremely useful and important to salmon populations. 2. The clip involves many cameos from other television shows like competing comedy shows and even news stations, which are satirized by Last Week tonight. Including the Daily Show with John Stewart, where John Oliver's television career began. 3. The shooting salmon is done to classical music. This is a classic example of catastrophe and beauty and brought parallel. 4. "Shooting salmon" is a double entendre referring to either hunting salmon with a gun (which would be ridiculous in its own manner) or launching salmon as projectiles, which is a humorous idea.

Harry Huntley; Period 5: A Post Found on Reddit  Job interview: "What's your greatest weakness?" ( [|self.Jokes] ) submitted 1 year ago by AmericanEmpire

"Honesty." "I don't think honesty is a weakness." "I don't give a *%$& what you think." Source: Jorgen Sundberg

1.The Joke has an exposition and a rising action, so it is clear and still grabs readers' attentions 2.The Joke starts normally, has a small oddity that could potentially be explained, but then a huge curveball, that completely throws the reader off. 3.Also, the use of an expletive provides an element of shock because it has nothing to do with the rest of the joke. It is not momentarily confusing in the same way as the rest of the joke, but in a way that completely is not explained to the reader. Even a persona s brutally honest as this main character has no reason to swear. It does not make sense as part of traditional comedy, giving a whole other shock factor.

Will Povell Povell; Period 5

1. The joke starts off with a comment that is hotly debated today, so the audience is expecting a long winded answer. However, instead there is only a quick, to the point punch line. This set up and then surprise due to the difference between expectation and reality causes the joke to be humorous.

2. The premise in the first line is a serious non-joke topic, so the expectation is that what comes after it will also be of the same seriousness. However, instead the comedian presents a reason that is completely absurd. The response is absurd because no normal person would invite the NSA to play Candy Crush and expect a response. Because of the absurdity of the second line, the joke is unexpected and therefore funny.

3. The joke is also funny because of the personal connection the audience may have with the joke. Candy Crush is a fairly popular social-media game that incentivizes inviting your friends to play it. The audience may have felt frustration at not having someone respond to their invitation to Candy Crush before, making the joke funny to them due to its relevance to their life through a shared experience.

Ana Islas; Period 5

1. This is funny because this makes fun of the saying "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" because if it were true then the doctors would be out of a job

2. This joke starts off with "An Apple A Day" in large font and the reader would expect to see "keeps the doctor away" to follow, however, there is a very different ending to this common saying in much smaller font right below it. This deceives the reader and thus makes it humorous because the joke was unexpected.

3. This is also funny because the doctor used in the joke is constantly reused in other memes and is always giving out incorrect health facts to his patients and so the things said in this meme are also wrong.

Tuvia Rappaport; Period 3 [|I installed a new home alarm system I've never felt safer] ( [|self.Jokes] ) submitted 1 day ago by [|proROKexpat]

I've disconnected my home alarm system and de-registered from the Neighborhood Watch.

I've got two Pakistani flags raised in the front yard, one at each corner, and the black flag of ISIS in the center.

The local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching the house 24/7. I've never felt safer and I am saving $49.95 a month.

1. The joke starts off on a serious note, proposing a new type of home security system that is safer and better. Had the context of the joke been anywhere other than the subreddit for jokes, the audience would be expecting a legitimate proposal for increasing home safety. This hook grabs the audience’s attention as they await the reveal. Furthermore the contrast between the audience’s expectations to the absurdity of the reveal adds to the humor.

2. The reveals absurdity is what makes the joke funny. The idea of using the ruse of terrorism to protect against home invasions is completely absurd. However the joke’s absurdity does not end there, adding on at the end that the writer is saving $49.95 a month is preposterous and makes the joke funnier.

3. The joke addresses two contemporary fears, terrorism and home invasions. This gives the audience a personal connection during the jokes hook as feeling safe from home invasions is a common desire. It also feeds on the audience’s fear of terrorism, and in the punchline makes light of a serious situation adding a dash of dark comedy.

__Syeda Fatima- Period 5__

__Dove Release Failure__ __https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5bD_cXWccI__

__1. As the man releases the dove everyone is expecting that it will majestically take flight, but unexpectedly the dove falls instead. The person making the video was obviously not expecting this but follows the failed trajectory of the bird anyway. The way the camera moves to capture the dove's plummet creates a comedic effect.__ __2. Also the fact that this failure took place at a funeral, a serious and melancholic event is amusing. The man recalls a story about the dead and hopes to create a sad feeling with the release of the dove. Instead, the man is met with unexpected failure. Just the thought that the man probably squeezed the bird to death as held he it is ridiculous and absurd. The sad feeling that was supposed to be created turns comical upon the failure of the dove to take flight.__ __3. The reaction of the audience is also amusing. One would expect the people at a funeral to be gloomy and sad but the failure makes them laugh instead. As the dove falls to the ground the people make noise and burst into laughter and some just look around, utterly confused. No one would expect this kind of reaction from people at a funeral and this makes the situation ironic and funny.__

Brenda Dzaringa- Period 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWjKkF0Zi4

1. When the speaker begins his speech soft music begins to play, making the moment seem serious but that all changes once he begins to speak. 2. He is completely serious in what he's saying and keeps a straight face the entire time. None of what he says makes any sense or connects what one has to do with the other. 3. His speech is obviously ridiculous although he swears he doesn't lie anymore. The students begin to leave the assembly because they realize he's mental and lying (and so does the audience). However, he begins smoking and is hit with a wrecking ball, confirming everything he said.

Anestis Patrikios: Period 5 Hilarious Video --> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u51OxZF1ltI

1) The video begins with an overly cheerful mother who is advertising for a fruit snack bar. This gives the viewer the illusion that the rest of the video will be her commenting on how great the snack is, persuading others to go out buy the snack. 2) The mother is completely unaware what lies ahead of her as she does this commercial. She is walking down her living room nonchalantly, which has toys scattered all around the floor, and she still doesn't realize she needs to be a bit more attentive to where she walks so something terrible doesn't happen to her. 3) Near the end, when she talks about her children, she trips over a toy truck her child left lying around and falls face first into her glass coffee table. A second passes and she doesn't get up either. She lays there and no one helps her. This is hilarious because it is something that no one would have expected to happen. 4) The actual commercial being presented is an awareness to keep your house clean. This is the most ridiculous way to advertise many homeowners with families to keep their houses clean so they won't die, as she probably did just laying there for so long. Although it is upsetting to see someone as innocent as a mother get hurt, it is random and hilarious; which makes it humorous.

Jessy Grell: Period 7 [| https://vine.co/v/Or5HYgqQJXi]

1) At the beginning the girl seems to just be posing for a normal picture, making the viewer think the video will be just that. 2) The girl is oblivious to the wave that is about to hit her in the video. Her back is to the ocean and she cannot see anything that will happen. 3) At the end, after she turns in a circle, the wave hits her. As the wave hits, the song "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani begins to play. The section of the video where she falls is repeated as the song plays. This is funny because of how unexpected it was.

Kathy Le; Period 5



1. The suggestion of reading Neil A.'s name backwards is ridiculous, but the effect is surprising because coincidentally (or not), it creates the word "alien." The idea of aliens is already wild and funny, but attaching the term to someone like Neil A., who many people have heard of since they were children, makes the joke accessible and humorous to a wider audience.

2. The use of the rhetorical question heightens the effect of the joke because it brings up a possibility that people normally don't think about (sending Neil A. //back,// rather than //to// the moon.) People tend to be humored by their own imaginations.

3. The History Channel meme is well known on the internet and has been used numerous times to amplify the humor of the weird speculations of people on the internet. It is used specifically in this case because the guy in the picture, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, was on the History Channel for the //Ancient Aliens// series, where he explained that inexplicable occurrences in the past were actually the result of aliens visiting Earth. The meme references a funny-looking guy and a different, but related idea about aliens, making the joke even more humorous.

Ivan Gapeev: Period 7 @http://xkcd.com/699/ 1) Doctors have the ability to say anything and be believed 2) Patients believe anything doctors tell them 3) A baby going against gravity after the trimesters are over would not end well for anyone.

 

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 * 1) The joke starts off with something very normal, so the audience would expect it to be boring. However, the joke turns out to be very funny in the end as it is unexpected. The audience is surprised by the fact that doing something as simple as chopping peppers can lead to a chaotic, uncontrollable, and painful situation.
 * 2) Getting hot pepper juice in the eyes can be painful and isn't something to be laughing about. However, making the situation overly dramatic to the point that they have to go see an eye doctor (in the last gif) causes the audience to laugh a shocked and unexpected laugh.
 * 3) This joke is made in a way that the actual dialogue is not very important. The actress (the mother) instead uses a hilarious visual language (and facial expressions) to create a funny situation.
 * 4) The mother's ongoing blunders are what make the joke funny. The fact that the mother realizes her clumsy mistake but continues to repeat it right after is completely ridiculous. However, the joke doesn't stop there, adding on a dramatic ending scene of them screaming in the car as the mother drives with her eyes barely open makes the joke even funnier.

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1.This is funny because it's kind of ironic that there isn't a proper chair in a furniture store. 2. It is also funny because IKEA furniture is self assemble, and the guy would have to assemble his own chair before he can sit in it. 3. Lastly, the cartoon is funny because the interviewer asked the guy at the door to have a seat in an unassembled chair as if it was the most natural thing in the world to do.

Simon Benzer, Period 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L8UQaAJmYs

1. This is funny because it illustrates how, quite obviously, many Americans do not think before they speak. 2. Not only are many of their answers simply absurd, but their reactions, once they realize what they have said, is amusing. 3. What's also funny is that many of these contestants do not realize that the things they have said are, quite often, rather asinine. 4. Lastly, these clips are composed in a way that allows the viewer to realize the absurdity themselves. As, in almost all of these situations, the absurdity is arguably obvious, instead of spending 2 minutes per clip listening to the hosts reactions (and the audience's) so the viewer can know they concluded "correctly", the video simply moves on to the next clip.