Thursday 5 July, 2007

Types of Funny Things

Humour is a funny thing, they say - you can't define it, and you never know where it comes from. Except, of course, that you do. Here's my classification of all things that lead to a laugh.

Types of humour

Slapstick: Children toppling over. Old people falling over. Into ditches. Into Swimming Pools. Over Banana Peels. With the Benny Hill music playing, preferably.

Coarse: Forcing obscene/vulgar language and visuals upon otherwise decent situations. Depends on shock value, on surprise, sometimes on outrage of victim.

Larry David and Seinfeld humour : Making fun of everyday life things with obtuse observations. You laugh because you never thought of that and these tremendously astute, different thinking, insensitive but eccentric people did. Sometime you laugh because there are others laughing in the background of the reel. I get it.

Sarcasm and Irony: Doing and saying the opposite of what you mean. Huh. Not funny.

Alien humour : The "Russel Peters" brand of humour - Using ethnicity and race, and accents and caricatures. Differences in behavior and thought of people are funny! Especially when repeated over and over and over....

...or pseudo intellectual humour, which consists of classifying humour and writing pagefuls about it.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great class over humour :)
Anyways, humour is one thing, in any form, that keeps one going !

Anonymous said...

Dont forget "dead pan" funny,E.G Flight of the conchords.

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