HUMOR AND SATIRE

Heller's uses of black humor and negation combine to create perhaps the greatest absurdist novel in American history.

How humor is used in narratives of the apocalypse

Here are some movies that could benefit from a remake. Read on and see if you agree.

Disney for the very first time has been able to poke fun at itself and make us laugh until we drop!

This is a worksheet for students to use in creating their own Persuasive Speech. It helps with brainstorming, organizing their thoughts and outlining the speech.

This is a worksheet for students to use in creating their own Interpretive Speech. It helps with brainstorming, organizing their thoughts and outlining their speech.

A discussion with Robert Darden, Sr. Editor of The Wittenburg Door about how to sell satire.

One of the most effective and constructive kinds of humor is obtained by reducing a real-world situation, person, or idea to its absurd logical extreme, or magnifying its flaws by making obviously absurd statements. Humor through absurdity is at the core of satire.

Health and fitness writers know that it is one of the largest markets other than mainstream fiction. Competition is brutal and the fight for the slots at the publishing houses can get messy.

Writing for a blog is easy, getting that blog noticed by a search engine is priceless. There is an art to writing blog headlines that grab the search engines attention...

You're gonna enjoy meeting this guy after this. His articles are really worth reading.

This article discusses the importance of the Daily Show, the Colbert Report and the Onion in society. They challenge conventional wisdom and make us take a look at ourselves and those we idolize

It isn't a secret to onetime fans of the magazine that Mad Magazine isn't the same as it used to be. But now that the economy is requiring them to cut back on issues, a move to the net could foster a more competitive spirit in satire again...

A look at the use of satire, black humor, and irony in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.

humor as an effective means of protest

Perhaps the people mentioned in this article aren't everybody's favorites in the world when it comes to their reputations. They nevertheless have (or held) a lot of clout...and managed to say things that would destroy other reputations in an instant...

A comparative analysis of Leone's masterpiece and Raimi's modern narrative.

This article list the top 5 joke books in six categories, Clean, Dirty, for Men, for Woman, for Children, Famous comedians and it is rounded out by, of course, on-line related humor volumes.

Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat takes satire to new highs (and lows), in one of the few must-see comedies ever made.

My personal thoughts on satire as a literary genre.

The cartoon row has exposed somehting dark about us. Our lack of humour and insensitivity has now come out in the public.

Rip Van Winkle tells the story of how America has been changed by the revolution. Every nook and cranny within Washington Irving's most well-known work contains personification of the newly minted United States of America.