Essays on Humor

In “The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Mark Twain uses elements of humor like satire, and dark humor to create laughter from sorrow and to show the corrupt qualities of human and society’s nature such as lying, gambling, and stupidity. Mark Twain used satire...

Most people who have read Mark Twain’s books can’t help but feel conflicted with his writing style. It often straddles the line of being humorous and stinging. Satire is one of the mechanisms that he uses to highlight his main points. A lot of authors...

 One of the finest examples of medieval humor is deployed in “The Reeve’s Tale,” part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. “The Reeve’s Tale” excellently displays the bawdy sexual humor that was popular in medieval culture and featured in other works of the period,...

Situational comedy (later referred to as sitcom) is “a genre of comedy performance in which some recurring characters showcase audiences a series of humorous stories in a familiar environment such as a family home, workplace stores and so forth” (Ma, Jiang 2013). American sitcoms usually...

Consistently, there are a huge number of dollars spent on humorous advertising. Publicists and scholars discovered that some 10% to 30% of promotions contain a few sorts of clever usage of humor. In the 2009 Super Bowl ads, about 71% of commercials contained some type...

I’ve come to the conclusion that, with few exceptions, stand-up comics who use the “F” word are simply lazy and untalented. I don’t reach that conclusion as a prude. I’ll go on to describe some pretty good occasions to use it. I don’t reach that...

Humor can be taken in many different ways, not everyone has the same perspective on things. Something people see as funny others can see it as offensive or going too far. The movie Tropical Thunder by Ben Stiller which released in August 13, 2008 depicts...

The word humor means to laughter and comedy and we can say a mood of state or state of mind. The word advertisement means to publicize and giving information of the products and services to increase sales. When humor arrives in advertising it catches more...

In the play “The Importance of being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, he has used the language of the characters to express humor and satire, which he uses in the play as a parody towards the characters, and mock the Victorian values. The dialogues of the...

Why are race jokes funny? This is a multifaceted question, but can be explored by examining someone whose ethnic humor is well-received. Russell Peters is a widely successful Indian-Canadian comedian that frequently employs race and ethnicity related jokes in his act. Particularly, he uses various...