Form-versus-content humour is a type of humour in which the way a statement is made contributes to making the statement humorous.
Usually this is by the means of having some contradiction between the medium and the message; for example, by presenting a message in a form that inherently defeats the ostensible purpose of the message, or in a form that is fundamentally incapable of carrying the important part of the message.
Read more about Form-versus-content Humour: Examples
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)