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Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from...58 KB (6,990 words) - 10:01, 4 June 2024
Black comedy (redirect from Black humour)reminiscent of dying. Black humour can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humour with authors...45 KB (5,156 words) - 23:00, 3 June 2024- Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning...12 KB (1,358 words) - 14:43, 28 April 2024
Toilet humour, or potty or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, diarrhea, constipation, urination...17 KB (1,874 words) - 17:23, 26 May 2024- Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience. This can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humour, overt sexual themes, mocking...2 KB (186 words) - 14:02, 15 March 2024
- The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary...47 KB (1,581 words) - 14:53, 28 March 2024
British humour carries a strong element of satire aimed at the absurdity of everyday life. Common themes include sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek, banter, insults...23 KB (2,919 words) - 06:15, 9 May 2024
Humorism (redirect from Theory of the humours)the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08. Jouanna, Jacques (2012). "The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Theory of the Four Humours"...45 KB (5,427 words) - 23:17, 22 May 2024
Four temperaments (redirect from The Four Humours in Reniassance)similar to the Greek temperaments. Temperament theory has its roots in the ancient theory of humourism. It may have originated in Mesopotamia, but it was Greek...29 KB (2,436 words) - 10:12, 27 April 2024- The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits two or more overriding traits...2 KB (288 words) - 21:53, 29 December 2023
- Deadpan (redirect from Deadpan humour)Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast...11 KB (1,198 words) - 00:19, 8 September 2023
The aqueous humour is a transparent water-like fluid similar to blood plasma, but containing low protein concentrations. It is secreted from the ciliary...8 KB (982 words) - 04:32, 21 April 2024
Jewish humor (redirect from Jewish Humour)and one foot is outside of it, what is the law? It was for this question that Rabbi Jeremiah was thrown out of the House of Study -- Talmud (Bava Batra...45 KB (6,468 words) - 22:22, 4 June 2024- "Humour and its kin", in J. H. Goldstein & P. E. McGhee (Eds.), The Psychology of Humour (pp. 43–60). New York: Academic. Schaeffer, N. (1981). The Art...59 KB (7,937 words) - 01:37, 6 June 2024
- Vitreous body (redirect from Vitrious humour)separating it from the rest of the eye. It makes up four-fifths of the volume of the eyeball. The vitreous humour is fluid-like near the centre, and...18 KB (1,744 words) - 03:14, 27 May 2024
- Computer humour, also known as hacker humour, is humour on the subject of computers or their users. Examples of computer humour include: "Any key", taken...6 KB (771 words) - 14:10, 11 February 2024
- 1,837 Seconds of Humor is the debut album of Ray Stevens, released in 1962. The front of the album shows a sheik that rides a camel, which is a reference...6 KB (334 words) - 05:54, 14 July 2022
Joke (category Humour)A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant...79 KB (10,330 words) - 06:06, 7 February 2024
Off-color humor (redirect from Off-colour humour)in nightclubs in the 1960s and 1970s for his raunchy stand-up act, but toned it down for the television shows Sanford and Son and The Redd Foxx Comedy...7 KB (866 words) - 23:23, 27 May 2024
Comedy (redirect from Sense of the comic)satire, and later with humour in general. Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by...36 KB (4,226 words) - 15:25, 30 May 2024
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- by Agnes Repplier The Mission of Humour 2019416Americans and others — The Mission of HumourAgnes Repplier The Mission of Humour "Laughter is my object:
- Absurdity (redirect from Surreal humour)sublime to the ridiculous. I very much like your love of pleasure, and your humour and malice: it is so delightful to live in a world that is full of pictures
- aqueous humour. Most of the light refraction occurs at the cornea which has a fixed curvature. The first humour is a clear mass which connects the cornea