This part is a rip on the classic motivation speeches where the speaker seems to congratulate the audience for doing nothing. “That pat on the back right there is for saving the world,” He adds. “I’m not going to let you stop until I see everyone doing it,” He says. His first actual line is a request for the audience to pat themselves on the back. Obviously, this part of his satirization is meant to humor, but calling out these typical practices of all TED speakers makes the viewer realize how often they occur. Within these first seconds, he has already satirized the typical TED speaker in many ways. This talk starts out with some fidgeting by the speaker, an immediate rush over to the water bottle, fiddling with the mic, a request to restart, and breathing that indicates he is already tired. Although presented in a very humorous way, this TED talk does a great job in satirizing and calling out the classic TED talk (and motivational speech) tropes, which brings me to my first takeaway: the importance of criticizing and critiquing the norm. Due to their negligence, TED permitted him to have a spotlight, ultimately proving Hyde’s point: that they would let anyone use their platform. A simple internet search would have shown that Hyde was a comedian, not a journalist. He had told this story to TED without giving any evidence or without them even doing a background check. The problem was that none of this was true. He reached out to TED and the university where it took place, and told them his story about how he had just done some journalism work in Africa where he helped a group of war-afflicted women clean up the streets of their town and help restore the community. Sam Hyde got the opportunity to do this TED Talk in a very unconventional way. It was actually presented on TEDx, which is what TED uses to organize talks in smaller areas. Learn more here.This TED Talk was actually removed from the official TED site (you’ll see why later), but I think that it still says a lot of important ideas regarding what it so obviously satirizes. Just can't wait? If you're a creator – filmmaker, musician, artist, writer – you can skip our waiting list line and earn $1,000 in LBRY Credits at the same time. Tune in at 9:15 PM PT on Friday and 12:45 AM PT on Saturday.
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In fact, tomorrow night you can catch episode two of their brand new Adult Swim series MillionDollarExtreme Presents: World Peace. MDE has since exploded from extremely super humble origins on YouTube to Adult Swim darlings, following in the footsteps of Tim & Eric and Wonder Showzen. Now it's practically internet gospel for cutting-edge satire and comedy. Their signature, fast-paced style of random jump-cuts, meaningless text overlays, crude humor, and nonsensical characters pushed boundaries several years ago. MDE is a comedy sketch group featuring Sam Hyde, Charles Carroll, and Nick Rochefort.
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