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Humor is the best way to get out of sticky situations. People

manipulate their sense of humor naturally when dealing with uncomfortable
circumstances. However, being a humorist is a risky professional to even
pursue because of the contradicting topics they have address to stay
relevant. Although humorists are labeled for the sole purpose of
entertainment of the people, in reality, they aim to point out the true feelings
of unspoken issues by unspoken and fearful people in society.
While humor is surrounded with laughter, smiles, and having a sense of
liberation to speak without restraints of pressure, there are hidden messages
revealing their opinions of matters publicly for the American peoples voices
to be heard. America has a relaxed mentality about serious situations,
because they use mixes of comical phrases within our books, art, and
movies. Humorists characterize their views in all different views, through the
creations visually to express the hidden feelings of the audience. In popular
America, Uncle Sam is the political icon for the views in general society. One
famous political cartoon, with Uncle Sam, shows the position toward
immigration in the United States during the 1860s from Europe. The
exaggeration made to depict the issue at hand in a comical form, was one of
the ways to make fun of opposing views on disputes. Political cartoons have
excessive symbolism to support positions that the cartoonist is attempting to
make the public see with a straight forward understanding. In this same way,

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Authors use satirical characteristics in the plot of their books by mocking the
typical problems between politics, religion, or money which society feels are
vital priorities in life. In the book, animal farm uses the devices of
personification and symbolism, tied to satire, shaping the storys comparison
between the farm animals to Soviet Union. George Orwell, the author, voices
his beliefs on political power of a totalitarian government system through a
satirical approach using a farm of animals evolving in a human-like form.
Humorist address the awkward issues that humans repress due to their
hesitation to express the freedom of speech.
Within the world of Humor, tensions are overlooked so people will have an
open mind about what humorist is saying. Humorists focus on relatable
situations to keep an intrigued audience. Comedians, such as Kevin Hart, use
these tactics on everyday experiences between individuals, allowing people
to gain vital insight for how to handle future situations or reflect on the past.
Humorist become vital to the society as they expose the hidden struggles in
lives of ordinary people. Kevin Hart and other humorists, of all trades, give an
outlet for pressure of life to be released. The well-known television program
known as Saturday Night-Live, is a show full of comedians that combine the
trending perceptions of the nations thoughts on political, social, and
environmental issues an bringing them into the spotlight. In this show they
freely make a mockery of the matters because they have the free will, as

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humorists, to indirectly, but intentionally point the finger towards anyone or

anything.
If the world paid more attention to the art of humor, more issues and
disagreements would be brought to the surface into the eyes of society to
see clearly. Humorists balance the worlds threshold to tolerate criticism,
whether positive or negative. For people to succeed in life as a whole, would
be compromised if the worldly problems are kept in secrecy; yet humorist in
todays time give people the opportunity to voice the views directly on
controversial messages.