Smelly Cat Rhetorical Analysis

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Maggie ketels Writing and communications Mrs. Allbee There are songs that are happy, sad, and just plain silly. For example, Smelly Cat sung by phoebe Buffary on the television show Friends. Smelly cat is funny to be because it is simple yet silly. She sings about a cat that is smelly, but the cat can’t help that it is smelly. This is funny to me because she sings very bad and the lyrics don’t make sense. Phoebe doesn’t know that she is bad at singing. Her five friends and everyone listening to her in the coffee house are the people that know she is bad at singing. She sings these silly yet simple lyrics very poorly. Singing poorly is funny because many who sing poorly do not know they are singing poorly. They are oblivious to what they

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