Assignment 4

In a webpage in your Project 2 folder, make a 2-page website that discusses a comedic sketch or stand-up comedy bit in terms of an argument. In the first page of the site, analyze what claim is being made and the evidence used to support that claim. As we've discussed the claim may be latent, or unsaid. You will use the manifest, or said, aspects of the sketch or bit to interpret what the claim of this particular comedy might be.

For example, in Bill Hicks's bit about the Kennedy assassination, he states the claim that the assassination was a conspiracy and that subsequent efforts to explain the event were efforts to control access to the information by a "totalitarian government." He uses the image of Oswald being flown over the motorcade by Castro-supporting pidgeons to present how ludicrous the official explanation of a "single shooter" is.

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