Al Gore's Nobel Prize

I want to say first that I don't mean any offense to any MS-13 gang members, any cute environmentalists, or even Al Gore. I'm poking fun at radical Islam and the Nobel Peace committee. I just don't think that Al Gore deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
None of the names here are real, and none of the events are. It's satirical fiction. Just for a laugh.

Think of this as an article in a paper.

Oslo, Norway __ The identity of this year’s recipient of the coveted Nobel Peace Prize was released late this Sunday evening. This year’s recipient, Osama Bin Laden, a public figurehead for Islamic awareness, has drawn some negative publicity from some disgruntled parties possibly because Bin Laden also holds the controversial position at the top of the FBI, the CIA, and Interpol’s 10 most wanted persons.
Mohammed Guwhanid of the Sasketchawan Times says he believes the controversy is outrageous. “[Osama] has raised more awareness for the [Muslim religion] than any other man in history- maybe even Mohammed.”
Gerald Greenwizer, the recently appointed chief editor at the New York Times agreed. “In this day and age, freedom of speech is being more and more infringed upon... It’s good to see someone being recognized for standing up for what they believe.”
The Hispanic civic organization, MS-13 has publicly announced their support of Bin Laden’s award. “Our group fully supports Mr. Bin Laden’s efforts. He‘s a tireless individual, selflessly providing beneficial after-school programs for local youth.”
Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the attacks against a U.S. Marine base in Khartoum and 9/11 attacks in New York, was unavailable for comment but has recently posted a new video on the internet via the Al Jezeera website. In his video, Bin Laden indicates that he was not expecting this honor and does not plan on being able to attend the awards ceremony. He went on to encourage fellow members of the faith to defeat the infidel dogs and wisely advised his followers to use an “environmentally responsible number” of nuclear weapons against the “Great Satan“.
What does Osama plan to do with the prize money? According to the video, Osama plans to have it donated to Al Qaeda, the non-profit organization he leads. “Expenses just keep going up.” Bin Laden said in his video. “It’s hard to run clubs like this these days. Between logistics and supplies, the money just disappears. You can be sure we’ll put this money to good use. I already have my eye on a few big-ticket items from Iran.” Bin Laden was sporting a dashing beard and mustache and provided several entertaining clips of himself firing high-caliber weapons at pictures of school-children and George Bush.
After some riots outside the Nobel headquarters in Oslo, Norway, the center reportedly went into a stage 3 lockdown. Shortly afterward, a Molotov Cocktail was thrown through the front door, damaging several valuable works of art and injuring one worker.
“This is revolting.” said Alan Holostair, the head of the Nobel Selection Committee at a press conference shortly after the riot ended. “The kinds of people who would do this sort of thing need to be locked up.”
All of the rioters declined to comment.

There you go. Hope I don't make anyone mad.

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Good idea. Weird idea. Unbelievable idea.

And the story ended up unsatiric.

It seemed like a real-life article, and that certainly didn't make me laugh. It bothered me. I mean I understand your point of view. (and I hate discussing plitics on here, if it is politics) but I think Al Gore deserved the Nobel Prize.

Other than that, work on your satire! It's not just the topic that counts, but also the presentation. Add some funny studd we can relate to!

Okay, whatever. I just meant it to be a joke. It's supposed to read like a real life article, anyway. I honestly think that Al Gore hasn't done that much to open up the topic of global warming. I hate to get political but utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.
The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press spanning the period from Feb. 3, 2006, to Jan. 5. Put this in perspective when the typical Nashville household uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year.
His Nashville home is more than four times larger than the average new American home built last year — about 2,400 square feet, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Don't let me get too political, but I'd respect him more if he didn't fly his private jet all over the place and say stuff like, "I invented the internet."

Whatever. You can think what you want.

It's okay! You don't have to defend yourself!

I forgot to mention that it was extremely well-written. Though the satire didn't make me laugh

(UGH. Okay, I can't stop: Gore publicized Global Warming more than anybody or anything ever did. He won the peace prize because the weather has a lot to do with when and how wars/terrorism is going on, etc. etc. etc. blah.)

Okay, that's cool. Don't take anything I said personally.

Okay, besides it being a touchy topic (so expect some people to say they don't like the topic), it was pretty good. Well written as a journalistic article. You made it seem very real, which also challenges just how much people believe in the media.

Your satire: You need to make it more obvious. I caught on to what you were saying (lol about non-profit. That was so wrong, but I still couldn't help but laugh), but if your disclaimer before the piece is taken away, I personally believe, some people might think of it as a real article. For example, when you talk about Bin Laden being the head of the CIA and FBI. Make a joke out of that. Change the acronyms to something else that is completely ridiculous. Make it the acronym into a fictional or non-fictional department that you think is totally useless and stupid, but our (or another) government has it. Make this REAL, but not too real, if you know what I'm getting at.

This was funny. Satires don't have to be obvious. I mean, there's another fictional article about Bush being gay, which stops being funny because it just gets a bit silly. We know Osama will never get a Nobel Peaze Price, so you don't have to add over-the-topness and silly comments to make it funny. It can never bee "too real", since your basic premise is the joke.

It was well written but...bland. No funny. Satire is funny, you know like The Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert pretends to be a God-fearing Republican, but you get the picture that he's actually making fun of the Reps. Your tone of a newscaster reporting defeats the satire part, but overall it was good. You almost scared me into believing that was true :\

Yes Al Gore did deserve the Nobel Prize. At least he's trying when a lot of politicians don't even believe it's real. And the part about his big home, that's not hypocrisy, that's capitalism. Big money = big house. You don't see Bill Gates chilling with hobos even though he's a philanthropist.

I agree, but Bill Gates isn't trying to champion the Global Warming cause.

Al Gore's has his carbon footprint stuck in his mouth.

Well at least he's carbon neutral negative, I don't expect him to move out of his fancy home. He's doing more good than bad, and that's all that really matters now.

I thought this was very well written, and subtly funny, although I think the satire could have been explored more. But, yeah, very well written.

I also agree with you - Gore should not have won that prize. All he's done is taken a subject that was already very prominent in the media and politics, made a film about it (which contains various factual inaccuracies, by the way) to scare us into believing every word he says, and is now reaping the benefits. Personally, I resent being told how to live my life by someone who uses that much electricity in his own home when there's no need for it, goes flying off in his private jet whenever he wants, and uses one of the most power-consuming forms of media to get his message across, and involving some of the most non-environmentally friendly celebrities in the cause. And if he's going to tell us how to live, how to cut down on the non-neccessities in life, then he should lead by example, instead of taking this hypocritical path he has.

/rant

I think Al Gore getting the Nobel Prize is a good thing because it earns him more publicity and support, all things that he will use to further the cause of saving the environment. As to whether someone else deserved it more than him, well yeah, I'm sure there was someone, but I'm not angry about the outcome.

As to your piece, it was well written like Cpt. Smurf said, but I also agree that it read just like a newspaper article. I found it quite funny, subtly funny, which was good.

Um, I'll just say that for any future satire, you should be a little more obvious/over the top. This was an easy idea to satire because it didn't require a great deal of imagination--the whole thing was right there in front of you, it just needed some name changes. So, for future satire, be more "satirical".

No, seriously. If someone didn't find this funny I have lost faith in mankind.

Gerald Greenwizer, the recently appointed chief editor at the New York Times agreed. “In this day and age, freedom of speech is being more and more infringed upon... It’s good to see someone being recognized for standing up for what they believe.”

Heh.

Icaruss wrote:No, seriously. If someone didn't find this funny I have lost faith in mankind.

Gerald Greenwizer, the recently appointed chief editor at the New York Times agreed. “In this day and age, freedom of speech is being more and more infringed upon... It’s good to see someone being recognized for standing up for what they believe.”

Heh.

That was probably the best part of the whole piece.

I enjoyed this. It was well-written, but, like everyone else is saying, not satiracal (is that even a word?) enough. If you go to Uncyclopedia, they give some really good tips on how to make a parody of an article. You kept it coherent enough, which is good, but you need to add just a little bit of outragious-ness (outragiousness?). Other than that, it was good! Pretty funny, just not wet-your-pants funny. But I doubt you were even going for that.