A collection of Humor
There are many different forms of humor. I felt that it may be useful to include a few examples:
- Bantering
- Hey, don’t knock the shirt, the shirt gets the ladies interested. Then it’s the Star Wars sheets that seals the deal
- Paradox
- Incongruity
- Comic Exaggeration
- Absurd Images
- Scatological Jokes
- I love Scatalogical jokes. That’s some funny Shit.
- Irony
- A tow truck breaking down
- Witty Dicta
- Two fish are in a tank. One looks at the other and says, “ Hey, do you know how to drive this thing?
- Befuddling Story
- Paronomasia
- Did you hear about the guy who had to have his entire left side cut off? He’s all right now...
- Derogatory Epithets
- Much like ethnic slurs
- So-and-so, the dirty jew
- Angry Russian Pig
- Ridicule
- Invective
- Disarming Wit
- Person: You’re ugly...
- Response: Good, I was trying to look like you today.
- Sarcasm
- When someone does something wrong - Very good, well done, nice!
- Satire
- “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”- Stephen Colbert
- Cutting Irony
- Trees are cut to make paper to make flyers to tell us that cutting trees down is bad.
- Trenchant Rejoinders
- Two women are talking and one says to the other "I got a new husband" The other looks at her and says "whose?"
- Raillery: Light Teasing
- This is why we can’t have nice things...
- Derisive Caricatures
- Acerbic Rhetoric
- Paronomasia