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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... Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience ... can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humour, mocking of serious themes (a.k.a ... In radio, shock jocks use this brand of humour ...
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... Different cultures have different expectations of humour so comedy shows are not always successful when transplanted into another culture ... understand irony and that Germans have no sense of humour ...
More definitions of "humour":
- (noun): A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
Synonyms: temper, mood, humor
- (noun): (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state.
Synonyms: humor
- (noun): A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
Synonyms: wit, humor, witticism, wittiness
- (noun): The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous.
Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour
- (verb): Put into a good mood.
Synonyms: humor
- (noun): The quality of being funny.
Synonyms: humor
Famous quotes containing the word humour:
“The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)
“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
—Frank Muir (b. 1920)