Class Act
As a class, we went to go see THIS SNL performer at the Kodak Theater.
Who is Michael Che?
This comedian, to relate better to his audience, positions his narrative as a "little story"
Who is David Letterman?
This was the most prominent comedic genre of racial ridicule from the pre-civil war period until the civil rights era whereby white performers, including ethnic whites, painted their face black and portrayed African Americans as inferior, buffoonish, child-like and unassimilatable.
What is Blackface (minstrelsy)?
This comedian tends to frequent Republican and conservative spaces and was the 2012 Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC)
Who is Brad Stine?
This is a form of stating your case and backing it up and usually contains four parts--there will not be a sorry, so do not look for one
What is apologia?
This first day of our weekly classes, we gather to discuss this rhyming pair
What is happy/crappy?
This comedian uses tendentious or what we call socially taboo jokes.
Who is Don Rickles?
According to Weaver (2011) racist comedy, in which a particular minority group was continually targeted by racial ridicule can also be seen as a form of THIS racist discourse that contained on dominant meaning or interpretation.
What is monosemic?
According to Kenneth Burke, this frames the object of derision as fundamentally flawed, a villainous opponent unworthy of redemption or reconciliation...an external assault or mockery.
What is Burlesque?
What is suffering?
We have THIS many faith-based names in the class
What is six (6)...name them all.
This comedian follow the rhetorical lineage of the griot--the person responsible for the art of story telling
Who is Dave Chapelle?
THIS song is the epitome of essentialism as it combines many different Asian cultures as a fighting assassin type
What is "I want to be ninja"?
This trope aligns liberals with being weak and sensitive.
What is wussification?
This term connotes devoid of meaning and philosophers have thought of ways to rectify it by either escaping (su*c*de), believing in deities or simply acceptance.
What is absurdity?
A colleague has a cousin that plays basketball at THIS horrendous/(joking only) institution.
What is Duke University?
"This (comedy) might be America's last safe place to say what you feel like saying...this is sacred ground"
Who is Dave Chappelle?
THIS is the form of ridicule that flows down the racial hierarchy (Perez 2014)
What is uni-directional?
According to Burke, THIS thrives in projecting strategic ambiguity, reflexively performing internal as well as external critique...usually speaking truth to power and mocking hypocrisies and insecurities of the dominant political discourses.
What is satire?
Brad Stine self-anointed himself this salvific comedian
What is the "God comic"?
A colleague lost THIS brand name of lunettes while on Spring Break.
What are Raybans?
"I'm a Jew. We're the chosen people. We don't have to do nothing...phone God. Hello God."
Who is Rickles?
Comedy that highlights the capacity for humor to function as an oppressive discourse reflects THIS theory, that reinforces ethnic and racial stereotypes and inequality by supporting a racial hierarchy via a "white racial frame"
What is superiority theory?
While the Antagonist Other is emotionally weak, THIS person is identified within religious faith, personal autonomy, industriousness, patriotism, and historical righteousness...
Who is the Protagonist Self?
Eddie Izzard won an award from Harvard and the American THIS Association for his contributions to the school of thought that believes in the agency of humans over an omniscient God like figure.
What is humanist?