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Lizzo Satire

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Part One: Reflect briefly on your own experiences with satire. Is this a genre you've experienced before? Satire is when you retell something in a way that makes a situation look stupid or embarrass someone. I have had experience with satire before, especially when watching TV. I have watched many tv shows with examples of satire in which they are used in a humorous way. Part Two: “Lizzo Retires To Spend More Time At Texas Roadhouse Wolfing Down Entire Buckets Of Those Delicious Rolls” mocks the situation where she said that she was going to quit her music career because of lawsuits her former backup dancers have put on her. The Babylon Bee writes that Lizzo has retired because she wants to spend more time at Texas Roadhouse eating buckets …show more content…

I’m worried there won’t be any rolls left by the time she's done.” The purpose of this article was to make fun of Lizzo because of her size. Let’s use Taylor Swift as an example. If Taylor announced that she was ending her music career, the last thing people would do is write a satire article saying that she is ending her career to prioritize eating the rolls at Texas Roadhouse. I am one for funny writing, but if I were Lizzo and this was written about me, it would truly hurt my feelings. “Caitlin Clark Canonized As Saint After Performing Miracle Of Making Women’s Basketball Watchable” was written after the University of Iowa VS. LSU, women's basketball game broke a record of most watched women’s basketball game. The purpose of this article was to humor the fact that before Caitlin Clark, not many people watched women’s basketball. The article expresses how this can only be an act of God that she is so good she made watching women’s basketball

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