Sarcasm It's No Joke Analysis

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Sarcasm, It’s No Joke You know, I really love being on a bumpy bus before the sun even rises on a weekend. I mean, who doesn’t love being in a confined space for hours with kids that will not stop talking and are spreading their nervous stench throughout the bus. Even better, I love when the debaters become heated in the smallest argument over contentions or a word in a definition. And I’m really looking forward to eating some lukewarm pizza at lunch. Sarcasm, it’s no joke. Nearly all of us are impacted by this questionable humorous epidemic. But, there’s no point in being informed about it. So firstly, we will review what sarcasm is and explore its origin. Second, we will investigate the usage of this wit today in discovering brain abnormalities and lastly, we will study how …show more content…

Even though this type of wit is of high intelligence, it is frequently used in a variety of literature, tv shows and movies. A lot of sarcastic literature falls into the satirical genre, which uses humor to expose and criticize vices… or stupidity.(3) One example is in Julius Caesar which is written by William Shakespeare. the character Mark Antony uses sarcasm at a funereal speech. He repeatedly calls Caesar’s murderers honorable men, despite his actual feelings toward them.(4) Additionally, on TV, an award winning show the Big Bang Theory uses sarcasm in its script but never acknowledges it. In an episode called The Big Bran Hypothesis, Leonard has to hold up a sign to signal to his roommate Sheldon, who claims to be immune to sarcasm, that Penny used sarcasm, and that he should probably stop talking.(5) Disney’s The Lion King also features sarcasm when Timon jokes “that worked like a dream”. This confuses Pumbaa which leads to Timon asking if sarcasm is foreign to him.(6) This proves that the target audience of sarcasm is everyone. This is because by the time children enter kindergarten, they should be able to understand and use sarcasm.(7) Do you still think that being a