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Since we decided on Little tink tink by Katt Williams, the speaker is obvious, Katt Williams. The audience is hard to narrow down since he plays a joke on the olympic scenario, so technically anyone who personally saw the olympics knows what exactly hes talking about and can thus relate and even if you didnt see the olympics his (williams) dramatics on stage and methods of story telling can amuse anyone. On top of everything this skit can be especially humorous because he finds humor in not only the situation but also all of the people involved, especially those who made fun of the cyborg track runner.

Katt William's Little Tink Tink, is a comedy piece where he discusses how one man beat the odds of his condition and won. This man with no legs who, prior to his accident was a runner for life, signed up for a race with his new aluminum legs. The people in charge of the race let him sign up because they believed he had no chance in winning. To their surprise "little tink tink" won the race and was later disqualified because of "an un-fair advantage." "Are you talking about the mother-fucker running with no Goddamn legs?" (Williams). It seems that Katt is targeting the Olympic Committee for being a bit cruel to a man that's been through a lot worse than some can imagine. Though that was Williams' target his intended audience seems to be people who saw the Olympics and agree that this ruling was unfair from the very beginning. IT's very sly how Williams can tell people how unfair this man was treated and at the same time talk about how we should truly be thankful for what we have and are given in life. This man's perservierence drove him to the winner's circle where he was robbed of his hard work and dedication because of people who,as Williams call them, are simply "haters".

For our video we decided on Katt William's Little Tink Tink. The rhetor is Katt Williams and there are multiple audiences. There's the audience he had in mind when he wrote this, those who saw the olympics and watched it happen as well as those who only heard about it a little bit. There is also the audience that watches through the internet and television. Then we have the physical audiance that is made up of a mixture of different kinds of people. Katt Williams tells the story in such a sympathetic way that you can't help but put yourself on little tink tink's side. He also brings out the humorous side of it with details such as saying the prosthetic legs looked like "bent back paperclips" and making the "tink tink tink tink tink" sound while he acts out the characters running and walking. His theatrics and acting combined with his great story telling technique also help bring out the humor in this sketch and helps the audiences imagination fully develop the story with him.

The video we chose was a scene from one of Katt William's performances called "Little Tink Tink". In this scene Katt Williams is the rhetor and his audience is everyone in the audience that evening, anyone on the internet, or anyone waatching throug dvd or television. In this scene Williams gets the audience to sympathize with "Little Tink Tink" an ex-runner in the olympics who comes back and runs with prosthetic legs, and wins. His story telling skills, vibrant sound effects, and the way he maneuvers abut the stage are all key rhetorical strategies he uses.

David Holley, Brooke Tharpe, Jeff Nascimento, Andres Villasmil