Humour
Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion.
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List Of Humor Research Publications - Collections of Scientific Works On Humor
... It's a Funny Thing, Humour Oxford, England Pergamon Press, 1977 J ... John Parkin (Ed.)(1999) French Humour Papers Based on a Colloquium Held in the French Department of the University of Bristol, November 30, 1996, Rodopi, ISBN 90-420-0586-6 Paton ... (Eds) The Social Faces of Humour Practices and Issues, Aldershot, England Arena Raskin, Victor ...
... It's a Funny Thing, Humour Oxford, England Pergamon Press, 1977 J ... John Parkin (Ed.)(1999) French Humour Papers Based on a Colloquium Held in the French Department of the University of Bristol, November 30, 1996, Rodopi, ISBN 90-420-0586-6 Paton ... (Eds) The Social Faces of Humour Practices and Issues, Aldershot, England Arena Raskin, Victor ...
Spice Boys (footballers) - Scandals and Controversies - Vandalism, Humour, Pranks and Orgies
... also labelled for being serial pranksters with a scally sense of humour that was not appreciated, reported widely in the media, with reports of them ...
... also labelled for being serial pranksters with a scally sense of humour that was not appreciated, reported widely in the media, with reports of them ...
Shock Humour
... Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience ... This can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humour, mocking of serious themes (a.k.a ... In radio, shock jocks use this brand of humour ...
... Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience ... This can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humour, mocking of serious themes (a.k.a ... In radio, shock jocks use this brand of humour ...
Humour and Culture
... Different cultures have different expectations of humour so comedy shows are not always successful when transplanted into another culture ... stereotypes in Britain are that Americans don't understand irony and that Germans have no sense of humour ...
... Different cultures have different expectations of humour so comedy shows are not always successful when transplanted into another culture ... stereotypes in Britain are that Americans don't understand irony and that Germans have no sense of humour ...
The Daily Mash - Reception
... favour" and aims to provide less politically correct humour than mainstream satire ... The site's humour has been described as "cruel," "scatological," "absurd" and "irreverent." It is considered a British alternative and upstart rival to the better known US ... Despite its humour, the site is considered to be insightful on occasion ...
... favour" and aims to provide less politically correct humour than mainstream satire ... The site's humour has been described as "cruel," "scatological," "absurd" and "irreverent." It is considered a British alternative and upstart rival to the better known US ... Despite its humour, the site is considered to be insightful on occasion ...
More definitions of "humour":
- (noun): The liquid parts of the body.
Synonyms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
- (noun): The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous.
Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour
- (noun): A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
Synonyms: temper, mood, humor
- (noun): A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
Synonyms: wit, humor, witticism, wittiness
- (noun): The quality of being funny.
Synonyms: humor
- (verb): Put into a good mood.
Synonyms: humor
Famous quotes containing the word humour:
“Right as the humour of melancholy
Causeth full many a man in sleep to cry
For fear of blacke bears, or bulles black,
Or elles blacke devils will them take.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
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