Final Humour Project

Final Humour Project

                       

                    

Why is it funny?

 

We used comedy of ideas along with comedy of manners in order to make our memes

funny. Our memes were comedy of ideas because we used satire. We came up with some

situations that we face in our everyday life, making them seem like it has a big impact on our

lives. In reality, we were mocking the way how, when put under a microscope, the problems 

actually seem pathetic. We used comedy of manners by mocking those who are wealthy and 

well off and their laughable problems. When they are dissected, it is seen that they are so 

minuscule compared to those living in developing countries which struggle with life-affecting 

problems, such as poverty and hunger. It seem horrendous and unpleasant. There are many 

people around the world who struggle to feed themselves and their families, and everyday, 

they have to worry about how they are going to survive the next day, the day after that, and 

so on. On the other hand, we live such a carefree life, having more than enough necessities 

and many luxuries, yet we still complain about the smallest things in our lives that make us 

feel the slightest bit of discomfort. We thought it would be especially funny for us because we 

can relate to these situations, although not as exaggerated. We can compare our everyday 

problems with the problems of people that are not as fortunate as us, and see how ridiculous 

some of the things we complain about are. Using satire, we mock how stubborn and self 

centered some people who live in this world are, and how they should feel more appreciative 

of how lucky they are to live in such a nice place.

Bill’s Reflection on this Project

Overall, I found the project very fun, especially because I did it with my friend. I found it 

extremely hard to think of what we should do, as I always do. We kept pitching in ideas, and 

we would agree and disagree. We would agree on an idea, but we would just change it right 

away, and repeat that multiple times. After chatting and skyping with each other, we finally 

decided on making the “first world problem” memes. Before we thought of this, we were 

planning to do a rage comic, but we changed to this because we could include both comedy 

of ideas and comedy of manners, and it would take much less time. When we decided on 

making memes, immediately waves of ideas came rushing into my head, and in just a few 

minutes, we were already done making our memes. 

As we were trying to come up with ideas, we had a lot of fun. The majority of the ideas 

that we pitched in were inappropriate for school, so that was where we were having the most 

problem with. We would check some sites for “inspiration” through the whole classes, and 

came up with nothing. We talked about it at lunch, but we ended up getting off topic, and 

saying things completely irrelevant or inappropriate. So we eventually ended up getting our 

idea two days before the due date. We started working on the memes quickly, which barely 

took any time. I found coming up with an idea much harder than I expected, and it got me 

panicking a little on the inside, but everything came through for us, and we ended up coming 

up with what I think are very funny and witty memes.

Jason Russell Campaigns to Put a Stop the Star Wars Bad Guys

Jason Russell, the founder of the Invisible Children campaign, revealed the true intentions of his actions. He has spent many years working extremely hard to catch the attention of people all around the world. He has posted videos, tweeted, facebooked, and used various other methods to spread the news of the campaign, Invisible Children. He has gathered many followers and funds, all for the preparations of a new crusade against the dark side, Vader 2012.

Everyone thought the plan was to save the children of Uganda from the LRA, and supported Jason, but the real plan was to stop the dark force of Darth Vader, before he could cause any troubles. To make sure that his enemies would not find out about his plans, he has created a fake organization, Invisible Children.

There have been many rumors that they have not been using their funds that have been donated by their supporters for the right cause, and that they have not been efficient with their money, but secretly, they have been saving up for the launching of Vader 2012.

The reason he focused on Uganda when Kony and the LRA weren't even there anymore, but in DRC was because he has spotted enemy actions in Uganda, and was trying to find out more about what Vader was doing. He has sent troops to Uganda because there was a big chance of Vader starting his attack in that country.

Recently, Jason has aroused the suspicion and questioning of many people with his reckless actions, such as taking the picture with weapons after saying that he hated them, and recently, running around naked in the streets of San Diego like a madman. With the revealing of his new campaign, he explained the reasons for his foolhardiness. "A few months ago, we found out that Darth Vader was keeping an eye on our actions, and we were wondering what we could possibly have done to catch the attention of our enemy. After days of research, we found out the reason of his suspicions. In one of the videos, during the talk with Gavin, I asked him who the bad guys were, and he responded 'the Star Wars people'. We were desperate, because we couldn't let Vader find out about our plans, and desperate times call for drastic measures. To try avert the attention of Vader, I decided to do the most reckless things possible, and we were able to avoid revealing our true intentions," explained Jason Russell during his interview with the New York Times.

Jason has finished all the preparations for the fight against Vader's forces, and has publicly announced his plan, as a challenge to Vader. He has also warned the people of this planet to prepare themselves for the war that is to come at December 21, 2012.