Writing a comedy piece in literature is tricky. One has to be serious and get a point across to people so they actually care about what one is saying. Adding comedy in a piece takes away a lot of that seriousness so getting a point across is a lot harder because people are focused on what is funny and not the actual problem or point made. Wallace author of "This Is Water" and Molyneux the author of "I Am Sorry I Didn't Write a Comedy Piece" both take serious life issues such as finding yourself for Wallace and typical stereotypes for women from Molyneux and make them funny, enjoyable to read, but highlight and bring really big attention back to their main points and make the fun and easy to read story a viable and learning experience that may be eye opening. Using comedic elements these two authors capture humor and combine it with a great life learning lesson to make a piece of literature more interesting and enjoyable to read and 

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Wallace in the second sentence of his story brings up "what the hell is water" (Wallace, 1) an important life lesson that is very humorous and is hinted on and repeated throughout the story. He uses the quote asking one fish to another what water is because they live inside of water and its everywhere so it's almost like it doesn't exist. In life humans live in air, nobody notices it or really thinks about air but it is everywhere. Things that are right in front of our faces go unnoticed just because they are always there. It is so important that if we went with more than around five minutes without air one would die. Air is the most abundant and most important thing that keeps humans alive but yet humans do not take care of it. Almost like it is not important or that it really isn't there at all. Its funny how something so little and obvious can be one of the biggest problems mainly because it will never be addressed in life. The second sentence that Molyneux writes is "So I put down the chocolate bar, stopped crying, and thought yes, that is what I will do." (Molyneux, 1). Molyneux is talking about what she needs to do to start writing a comedy piece. One can see the humorous imagery of a woman crying, and eating a chocolate to "solve" all of her problems. Molyneux brings a twist on a typical stereotype and almost turns it onto herself and woman as a whole to identify a serious problem that is almost embraced in today's society. Today most movies and television shows hit onto stereotypes for women that are not always true like eating ice-cream when they are upset, trying on all of their clothes to find something to wear, or calling themselves fat all of the time because of the way a woman looks on a magazine cover. Society does not help the stereotypes to go away because these stereotypes are revisited in every movie, ad, and television show that everyone watches. Almost like the stereotypes is what people thinks happen so for recoding purposes those people make it happen and make it reality. Women as a whole have adapted to most stereotypes as well by being the one in a household to cook and clean, eating ice-cream when they are sad, and being overemotional. Society has just accepted that this is what women are supposed to do so most women comply and live their lives by what stereotypes say they have to do. Both pieces of literature take a simple life problem and bring it to light by adding a funny aspect to the problem. Making the story more likeable and making the point easier to stick out and understand. These two pieces of literature also take the problems to the extreme to highlight a true problem and make the extreme situation funny making it easier to pull out the point being made.

