Clueless humour
... Both Emma and Cher expected Mr Elton and Elton to be the fitting partner for Harriet, and her Clueless parallel, Tai. ... (SATIRE) Another linguistic device Heckerling uses to create humour to transform Jane Austen’s Emma is through the use of satire. ... Clueless is a clever satire of the modern day American teen pop-culture and suggests how wealth and family also depicts the social structure like in Emma. An example of how satire is used as humour in Clueless is when Cher is telling her driving examiner that she doesn’t need to know how to park, because “everywhere you go has valet”. ... (COMEDY OF ERRORS) The next device Heckerling used to create humour was through “comedy of errors”. Jane Austen uses the errors of characters to produce humour.