Humour

Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses any form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion. A sense of humour is the ability to ex ...

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Humour: Encyclopedia II - Humour - Understanding humour The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous. For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective. By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true. Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term (the German loa ...

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Humour: Encyclopedia - Surreal humour

Surreal humour is a form of humour based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations, and nonsense logic. Probably the most common form of surreal humour is the non-sequitur, in which one statement is followed by another with no logical progression, as in the joke below. Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Vibrating Norwegian horse box full of sea-cucumbers Note that the humour in this joke depends not just on the randomness of the answer, but on its odd juxtaposition of disparate items. Surreal humour can also be found in unexpecte ...

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Surreal humour - History of Surreal Humour

Humour: Encyclopedia - British humour

British humour has a reputation for being puzzling to non-British speakers of English. Nonetheless, many UK comedy TV shows which use it as a basis have been internationally popular. British humour - Themes. Some themes which underpin twentieth-century British humour were: Smut and innuendo with sexual and scatological themes, typified by the seaside postcards of Donald McGill, the humour of Benny Hill, the series of Carry On films, and the comi ...

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Humour: Encyclopedia - Four humours

In traditional medicine practiced before the advent of modern technology, the four humours were four fluids that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health. An imbalance in the distribution of these fluids was thought to affect each individual's personality. The concept was developed by ancient Greek thinkers around 400 BC and was directly linked with another popular theory of the four elements (Empedocles). Paired qualities were associated with each humour and its season. The four humours, their corresponding elements, seasons and sites of formation, and resulting temperaments al ...

Humour: Encyclopedia - Toilet humour

Toilet humour (also potty humour) is a type of humour dealing with bodily toilet functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures. This genre also sees substantial crossover with the sexual humour genre, most likely because of the multiple-function nature of the body parts involved in both genre as well as the sexual fetishism involved with certain bathroom functions. Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour: Much of the lyrical content of avant-garde rock musici ...

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