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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...
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    Toilet humour, potty humour or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation (including diarrhea and...
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    Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning...
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  • fetishes) that might be ill received by a mainstream audience. Gross-out is a subgenre of comedy movies in which the makers employ humor that is willfully...
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  • British humour carries a strong element of satire aimed at the absurdity of everyday life. Common themes include sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek, banter, insults...
    24 KB (2,942 words) - 13:52, 23 October 2024
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    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...
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    Every Man out of His Humour (also spelled Humor in some early editions) is a satirical comedy play written by English playwright Ben Jonson, acted in...
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    Humorism (redirect from Theory of Humours)
    theory of the four humors features prominently in Rupert Thomson's 2005 novel Divided Kingdom. Classical element Comedy of humours Three Doshas of Ayurveda...
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  • 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...
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    Humour is an integral part of the Canadian identity. There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French. While these traditions...
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  • 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...
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    Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of "humours comedy", in which each major...
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  • Import of Humor". Sociometry. 32 (2): 169–181. doi:10.2307/2786261. JSTOR 2786261. Turner, Michele. Theories of Humour and the Place of Humour in Education...
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    comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or 'humours' that...
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    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...
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  • strips to having only humour strips. Prose stories were the first to start being phased out in the 1950s. Adventure strips were phased out in the 1980s. Following...
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    Jewish humor (redirect from Jewish Humour)
    methods of the Talmud, which uses elaborate legal arguments and situations often seen as so absurd as to be humorous, in order to tease out the meaning of religious...
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    city of Gabrovo, Bulgaria is well known for the unique sense of humour possessed by its citizens. Local humour centres on the alleged stinginess of its...
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    for me, the house being full of company, there being a ball at Southampton. Pincher was uneasy at this, and out of humour, and if he could speak, he would...
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    look, even when he wished to please; but, when he was out of humour, he was the true picture of reproof". Rupert's health during this period was also...
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