Humor

Humor is a form of entertainment that is intended to make someone laugh and have a good time.

• Clowns
• Comedy and Comedians
• Comedy film
• Internet humor
• Jokes
• [Practical joke]?s

There are different types of humor which appeal to different sectors of humanity - for instance, [Slapstick Humor]? is particularly popular with young children, while satire tends to be more popular with the older and better-educated.

Humor usually is localized and does not easily transfer from one culture to another. This happens because a large amount of humor is very context sensitive and someone whom does not understand the context will usually not understand the humor.

Various techniques are used to deliver humor

• Slapstick?
• Pun
• Joke
• Sarcasm?
• Satire
• Parody?
• Silly acts inappropriate for the situation or age of person
• fake stern manner that is inappropriate in a comic setting
• ridiculous gestures and movements
• deliberate ambiguity and confusion with reality (such as in Andy Kaufman's humor)
• play of words such as oxymorons, puns etc.
• unexpected outcome, such as a witty punchline.
• wittiness, as in many one-liner.
• absurdity
  • triple
• irony?
• self inflicted ambarassing situation, e.g. losing the swim trunk after a dive etc.
• self-degradation (such as in Rodney Dagerfield's humor)
• faking stupidity
• pointing out real stupidity (such as the Darwin Awards)
• stereotyping? (such as blonde, lawyer, polish jokes etc.)
• inflicting pain (such as kick in the groin or in the movie "Home Alone", etc)

there are many more, I just don't remember all the names