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seed: stuff that makes me laugh for no reason While we were discussing the personalized obscurities of comedy this week, I kept thinking about this one particular video that fit very well with my sense of humor. I think this music video could be classified as low burlesque, because basically every major societal issue is treated with mock respect. The lyric, "you better f*****g knock it off, ISIS (ooh ooh)", makes me want to scream simply by reading it. This, combined with the composition of the song and the emotional beach scenery in a boyband esque fashion really ties the whole satire together. For the sake of the assignment, we all know that simply chastising an international terrorist organization will not stop the organization in question from "doing bad s**t". Personally, I find stuff like this to be really funny because I find joy in making fun of other people's ignorance. This video does just that because not only does it provide commentary on how these

If I, the well-read teenager, were to describe Oedipus the King in a way that my fellow well-read teenagers would understand, it would be with this image: Pictured above is a meme that teenagers on Twitter use to poke fun at their own willful ignorance . Even though we may be able to laugh at this flaw in ourselves, it feels much more difficult to laugh at Oedipus for his same mistake because the consequences of his story are much more dire. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is quick to condemn the mystery murderer of the former king of Thebes upon discovering his death. He publicly shames whoever would be brave enough to do such a thing to an honorable man, meanwhile he actually is the shameful murderer in question . This stood out to me as a red flag when I was reading Oedipus Rex to find ways to prove his guilt. The theme of Oedipus being physically seeing but "mentally blind" is now a basic analysis of Oedipus Rex in literary textbooks. In the play, Oedipus makes every