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"Drunk Driving" The author has a brilliant way of connecting with the audience with humor. The author, being Gabriel Iglesias, is the rhetor in this situation and the audience is all the people in the crowd and all the people watching the video. He like other comedians took a very sensitive or touchy subject, and turned drunk driving into something quite humorous. Iglesias opens the skit by saying, "you know when your drunk and..." . He uses this as an ice breaker. He did not ask whether anyone in his audience has ever driven drunk, he simply assumed that everyone in the audience has driven drunk or has been driving while someone else on the road was driving drunk. This opens up opportunity for Iglesias to be humorous. If the comedian is on the same level as the audience, it will be more likely that the audience will find him funny. He later speaks about when or if someone hears the police pulling them over. This relates to the audience in the same manner, that the audience has either been pulled over or seen another driver being pulled over. He then uses the line "If you know for a fact that you are going to go to jail, then have a little fun" to bring humor into the situation. Throughout the whole skit Iglesias takes very serious subjects and talks about them as if they are part of everyday talk.

It is said that humor comes from the expense of others. Iglesias does not take the normal pursuit of a joke and has the rhetor or comedian humiliate or make fun of another person or group, but rather he uses himself as the person of expense. His last joke was about himself and the levels of fatness; big, healthy, husky, fluffy, and DAM! (him being fluffy). This makes the audience more comfortable about the subject at hand and therefore the audience finds the subject funnier. Iglesias does this through making fun of overweight people.

The skit "drunk driving" is talking to the audience with a serious situation and making humor out of it. Gabriel is talking to not just the audience, but those with personal experience with getting pulled over, being drunk, and those who are fat. He makes fun of himself talking about the "five levels of fat" and being called fluffy, level 4. Instead of naming names, Gabriel just makes a fool out of himself as the examples and catches the audience attention. Pretending to be something you not worked in this situation which gave Gabriel the attention of the audience that he needed.

Gabriel Iglesias made a humorous skit by using personal jokes and didn't really make fun of anyone directly. He took a situation that was pretty serious to begin with and turned it around into humor, drunk driving and being fat. Iglesias is the rhetor in this situation and the audience is the people in the crowd and the people watching him on the internet. Iglesias first talks about being pulled over while driving drunk and states "If you know for a fact that you are going to go to jail, then have a little fun". He is putting humor into a situation that has no positive outcome in the end. He then goes on about how to mess with the officer that pulled you over by moving to the seat next to you and pretending that you weren't the driver. This is humorous because it will throw off the officer until he sees you in the other seat and will probably be like "What are you doing over there". He ends the skit by calling himself fluffy and saying that there are five levels of being fat; big, healthy, husky, fluffy, and DAM! So he is making fun of himself in this situation which will be humorous to other people.