Iliza Schlesinger’s special is titled “Freezing Hot” this special was recorded in Los Angeles in front of a large audience. In this special she makes many jokes regarding the weather in the beginning. She parallels the freezing hot weather to her life as being a woman and what all that entails. She Explains the differences between male behavior and female behavior when it comes to the relationships between them. She shows the audience the ways they think about gender and how it is very diverse. Schlesinger’s rhetoric of this special is that gender roles are a very twisted thing. In the beginning of the special she comes out and is very honest and aggressive towards the audience. She plays on the idea of weather when she describes the special. …show more content…
She says “guys have it easy, they can talk about sports and things like that. Girls have to talk about the weather.” She then goes into talking about how girls dress according to the weather. The weather makes guidelines on how women can dress. By bringing this up she is showing the audience how culture has shaped conversation. She then goes into how women are sexualized. How advertisements are shaped to make women feel like they’re not good enough or that they should better themselves and how there is a whole market based just on this. She goes into the struggles of being a woman and then how she doesn’t understand why women degrade themselves. When talking about or acting like a man she develops another voice to distinguish between the two. She does this to show how ridiculous men sound when they say the things they do. She then brings sex into the conversation. To some when women comedians talk about sex it is considered “raunchy” or “of bad taste” gender in comedy makes it very difficult for some female comedians. Audiences seem to receive men talking about sex better than when women …show more content…
Most believe men do not acquire to the same guidelines. It is culture that has shaped gender over time. Women are believed to be the fairer sex. Decades ago women were primary care givers while men did the working. In Schlesinger’s special she brings some light on these thing at one point she says” women weren’t even allowed to wear shoes until 1952.” This is a jab at our culture. Women were obviously wearing shoes she was just pointing out that it they didn’t or don’t have equal value. Her style is very interesting, she uses play. She applies play in to her special by playing with the topic so she can get her point across. A lot of comedians use this theory to express their rhetoric. She also uses the biological theory; this theory is when you un controllably laugh at something and you’re unsure why. Biological theory plays on physiological way of thinking. In the special she uses callbacks. Callbacks are jokes that are made and then referred to later in the set. This gets the audience to laugh at a pervious joke once more. An example I can think of in this special is when she refers to women’s love of Pinterest and how they plan everything out on it. Then some time passes and she begins a new joke then refers back to it by saying she checked Pinterest. The audience laughed once again at the
She then immediately follows up with a way to fix it and demand respect. Shes trying to connect with the audience and shows that she has been in the same place, that she can relate. You can see that she has done her research, she uses plenty of statistics to give you a visual of what she is talking about as well as quoting people from organizations and giving them the appropriate credit. She mentions in 2005 at yale, her alma mater, 15 students sat in the admissions office until they were removed by police. These individuals were demanding changes to the financial aid policy.
The documentary revolves around the media, which is something that tries to make you be something you are not. The media portrays women as unstable creatures. Some women have gotten comfortable enough to think this is the way
She uses sentence structure along with what kind of mood she’s in. The long sentences are when she be getting mad, or trying to make a serious point. The shorter, choppier sentences are when she be ising the most sarcastic.
As Tina Fey learned throughout her life, being able to laugh at yourself is a key component to success. In her 2011 book, Bossypants, Tina Fey constantly pokes fun at herself, but in the best way possible. She discusses her childhood, her awkward stages of growing up, and some of her most embarrassing moments as an adult. By utilizing self-deprecating humor, Tina Fey makes her novel amusing and entertaining—something that contributed greatly to her success as a comedian.
Throughout his whole career, Williams was always performing standup comedy. While many stand up comedians were using the same routine for almost every show they performed, Williams was performing a different show every night. He would improvise most of his material based on his audiences reaction instead of going into the show with all of his jokes thought out. This material helped change what stand up comedy was (Lombardi). Late comedian Joan Rivers says: “My favorite is Robin Williams. There's nobody like him. His mind is just wonderful. I respect him because he does what I do. I've seen him get up at The Comedy Store, work out a whole Carson shot and then come on Carson and make it look like it's easy. He takes nothing for granted. He knows exactly what he's doing. Robin Williams is one of those people
For this paper I chose to write about one of my most recent favorite movies, The Heat. The Heat is staring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. I chose this film because every time I watch this movie I feel a sense of “girl power” and also its one of the first movies that came to mind after reviewing what the Bechdel Test was. In this paper I will go over how this movie The Heat passes the Bachdel test and will show you the constant battles that women face when they are working in a male dominated workplace. In this movie Sandra Bullock plays the part of Sarah Ashburn FBI Special who is very highly skilled investigator that is not well liked by fellow investigators because of her conceitedness and arrogance. Ashburn lives alone in New York City and is very much a
The comedy of this episode is enjoyable, original, and most of all, funny. For example, when Franklin Sherman was asking his “friend”
After some research, I found out that women have a large part in writing and producing the show. I believe this is why the show does such a good job of addressing gender roles and sexism.
The majority of comedy is centered on identity. Comedy, like many other aspects of different cultures contains barriers that are broken only by an understanding of the context of the comedy. In order words, it is unlikely that an African would fully understand a joke by an American comedian if the joke draws from a primarily American historical or social context. Hence, what one can identify with affects what kind of jokes one can relate to. Identity is predicated on the ability to relate because identities are formed through personal interpretations of the environment one finds himself or herself in. These personal interpretations can be highly influenced by a manipulation of the context or amount of representation. Using Bigsby and Ruckus
In the article, “I won, I’m Sorry”, Mariah Burton Nelson uses an anecdote in order to begin her article. Sylvia Plath’s attitude is one that is concentrated on conforming to men in order to make them feel comfortable and as the stronger sex. Burton Nelson then shifts to talk about women in sports and how these female athletes behave in order to fit into the gender roles people have become accustomed to. The anecdote is used in order to describe the way women will underscore themselves in order to fit into society’s definition of how a woman should behave.In order to frame her article, Mariah Burton Nelson uses the anecdote about the poet, Sylvia Plath, in order to demonstrate how women conform as a means to fit into gender expectations. This
The rate of her voice kept my interest because depending on the question she was answering her voiced seemed to rise and the emotion through her voice was clearly depicted
The woman talks about what happened to her when she worked in city government, where the councilman even kept her “menstrual cycle on a calendar” to use against her later in council when she wanted to hire more women. The way in which the show uses satire and it’s jokes about anti feminism helps the audience to connect that this way of thinking is an outdated belief. As the show’s main target was the younger generation, who are statistically more open minded regarding gender equality. In the same episode Leslie confronts the City Council about the lack of women in the sanitation department. At the meeting regarding equal employment every department in the city council never sent any women representatives, highlighting the issue at hand. City Manager Chris Traeger even exclaims “Oh my god, I’m part of the problem”. Councilman Milton, a known racist and sexist even congratulates Leslie on organising the snacks and tells the room “She has to leave now to go get more snacks.” In order to show that women should be hired in the department, Leslie and April volunteer to be thrash women for the day. When the male employees in the sanitation department claim that the women cannot move an extremely heavy refrigerator, Leslie and April take the challenge and gather women from around town to help move “the
...nd I believe that these six techniques are excellent examples of how humor can be conveyed to the audience without words. Sight gags tend to suggest the possibility of interpreting a situation in more than one way. The author points out that "the sight gag flies in the face of the prejudice that movies can only brutishly recapitulate from a single point of view what stands before the camera." From the conflicts of interpretation to the literal and metaphoric points of view, it is these things that confuse but amuse us. I am sure that most of us have seen variations of these six basic techniques in both movies and real life. Hopefully with this information one will be able to better understand and appreciate the humor of the sight gags and silent films.
The joke is more of a spontaneous joke pattern because people have to recognize that it is a joke. There is no set pattern to how the joke will go. Douglas focuses on Freud’s definition of a joke more so in the article because it plays more on the role on the subconscious. To Freud what makes jokes funny is that it is about the relaxation of the conscious control in favor of the subconscious. For the joke it may be funny to some people because they can just image what that scale would
The differences between women and men are not solely biological. Our society’s culture has established a set of unwritten cultural laws of how each gender should act, or in other words society has ascribed a stereotype. Men’s gender identity has been one of masculinity, and masculinity is defined as referring to a man or things described as manly. What does manly mean though? Is a male manly if he is “Mr. Fix-it”, or the jock, or if he sits on the couch on Sunday watching football? This latter statement is a stereotype of men, that has been around for decades, and is current as well, but starting with the 1960’s a man’s role started to change, despite the stereotype not changing to accommodate it. For the past 40 years one can see how men have taken on roles stereotypically ascribed to women, such roles including being the “stay-at-home mom”, which we can find an excellent example of in the 1980’s film “Mr.