In Tina Fey’s essay “That’s Don Fey”, I believe that the author’s anecdotes display well the definition of comedy according to Aristotle. The Greek philosopher defined the art of comedy as an “imitation of life, made worse, to elicit pleasure and improvement”. Throughout her essay, Fey points out various common situations of life of a child while adding a touch of calculated exaggeration in order to bring out humor. For example, at the beginning of her essay, she writes that she had messed up a few words to the theme Happy Days during her sixth-grade chorus concert and was so terrified to disappoint her father that for the rest of the concert, she focused only on suppressing her terror burps. Initially, the readers would understand that she
