It has been a while... and the fun of it all sometimes causes me to lose focus. Sorry. The lesson is for the Wit and Writing for Women group and if you are coming to the site expecting a reasoned look at a campaign... again sorry. For the rest we are using skills handout #1 and are bored...
Irony is a subtle skill and is helped if you have led a life that showed so much promise and ended in the shitter. Ironically I am really good at irony.
A fisherman eaten by a fish... ironic
A comic telling a joke he laughs at and no one else does...ironic and pathetic...
etc...
A candidate becomes an ironic figure... to you the comic... when you can find a funny or touching way to mirror the message the candidates campaign is sending out... tax cutter... family values... really really big brain... with things like tax evasion convictions... multiple wives and butlers... really really starstruck fans...
Start by using a direct statement from the campaign...
Ric4Mayor believes in cutting waste...
Barb4Mayor believes in community involvement...
Nemshi4Mayor believes the previous Council was broken...
Bob4Mayor believes in LRT...
To be ironic it needs fact... so be prepared to wade through a lot of chaff...
Now apply the skill of irony to the statement. This could be a statement they made... or a happening or cartoon you have established earlier. The irony of irony is that it is a joke... set up and punchline...
Irony is used by a comic to wake up the audience... in psychokinetic terms the realization of words that they the audience agrees with... being said by you the comic... activates production of endorphins... the slight felt hearing the punchline releases testosterone... hence the term "fighting words"... but I digress...
Think of an ironic observation as a jolt to wake up your audience... not so much Red Bull as Red BS.
Send me your ironic observations with the 4 candidates using the set up lines provided above and we will discuss them in the next meet up. I would give you mine but ironically it turns out I am not funny.
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