Amazon what?!

A great satire that I came across when watching SNL was a skit called "Amazon Echo." This skit gives is a parody of how Amazon Echo should function, but for old people. In today’s society, when we think of old people in relation to technologies, we think of them as someone who is not capable of using electronics such as phones, modern television, and gadgets. This skit makes fun of the old people as well as Amazon Echo in a way that allows elders to be able to use the technology. This skit uses few different types of satires, including parodies and hyperbole.

A parody is a type of satire that imitates a style for comedy or to be ridiculed. In this case, the skit was ridiculing elders because they have hard time understanding technologies. This idea is humorous towards the younger audience and may even go as to promote the fact that we should have technologies that will be easier for elders to use, or even have essential lessons towards the elders on how to use technologies.

Another type of satire that this skit uses is hyperbole. Hyperbole is also a type of satire that uses exaggeration and overstatement in order to make its meaning clearer. One example, of hyperbole is in this skit was when Kate McKinnon asked Amazon Echo to increase the temperature of the house, in which Alexa responds as “It’s literally 100 degrees in here”. This exaggeration shows that elders are fragile when it comes to weather, and even at a hot day, they may find the weather still a bit chilly.