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Gallows humor (484 bytes)
1: '''Gallows Humor''' is [[comedy]] that makes light of death, or ot...
13: [[de:Galgenhumor]]

Unintentional humor (1139 bytes)
3: ...here are several different kinds of unintentional humor that arise out of various situations.
7: ...he is [[illness|ill]]. Readers are likely to find humor in that [[SARS]] is also an illness.
9: [[Image:Unintentional Humor, Way In, No Entry.jpg|left|thumb|Unintentionally ...
13: It is possible for unintentional humor to arise when two different well-meaning people c...

Anti-humor (1589 bytes)
1: ...to these jokes are often extremely humorous. Anti-humor also encompasses various types of [[prank]]s and ...
3: ...t to the other side." Another common type of anti-humor is the [[no soap radio]] joke, often used as a pr...
5: ...[Andy Kaufman]], had his own unique brand of anti-humor, quasi-[[surrealism|surrealist]] acts coupled wit...
7: Anti-humor has at times spawned legitimately humorous jokes, such as "Why did the turkey cross the r...
22: [[Category:Humor]]

Good Humor (781 bytes)
1: ...[[1961]]. The company no longer operates the Good Humor truck, and has not since [[1976]], but independen...
3: ...n, Ohio]] [[candy maker]] invented the first Good Humor bar, ice cream on a stick.
6: The company today is part of [[Good Humor-Breyers]], a unit of [[Unilever]].

Humor theory (2236 bytes)
1: ...d philosophers. From [[Hippocrates]] onward, the humor theory was the most commonly held view of the hum...
3: ...Classical philosophy, believed that each of these humors would wax and wane in the body, depending on die...
5: ...ncholy]]. The idea of human personality based on humors contributed to the character comedies of [[Menan...
7: ...rote humor plays, where types were based on their humor dominance.
9: ...people believed that there were finite amounts of humor in the body, there were folk/medical beliefs that...

Professional humor (930 bytes)
2: ...e profession. Such humor is called [[professional humor]]. Jokes tend to exploit popular stereotypes abou...
4: with a bit of professonal humor.
6: Professional humor must be distinguished from "[[in joke|in-jokes]]"...

Internet humor (3958 bytes)
3: ... of emails cross the world containing the text of humorous articles, or jokes about current events.
5: ...[newspaper]] columns of [[Dave Barry]]. "Internet humor" is regarded as that which belongs to the [[publi...
7: ...nd the "[[geek]]" or "[[hacker]]" humor. That is, humor that would not exist if not for the Internet.
9: Generally, this type of semi-institutionalized humor starts as a specific group's [[in-joke]], and gro...
11: ...ngstanding and widely recognized examples of such humor are:

Off-color humor (716 bytes)
2: The term '''off-color humor''' is used to describe [[Joke|jokes]], [[Prose|pr...

Help desk humor (1321 bytes)
1: '''Help desk humor''' is a new genre that arose toward the end of th...
8: ...http://rinkworks.com/stupid/ Archive of help desk humor stories]

Self-referential humor (741 bytes)
1: ...play would be fertile ground for self-referential humor. A more concrete example would be the ''[[Stargat...
3: Self-referential humor is sometimes combined with breaking the [[fourth ...
12: [[Category:Humor]]

1837 Seconds of Humor (519 bytes)
1: '''1837 Seconds of Humor''' is the first [[Ray Stevens]] album. It was pu...

College humor magazines (2136 bytes)
1: ...t]], some are online only. Some of the '''college humor magazines''' have a long and illustrious history;...
3: ==List of College Humor Magazines==
33: [[Category:Humor]]

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (577 bytes)
1: ...nually since [[1998]]. It is named after famous [[humor]]ist [[Mark Twain]].

Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1982 bytes)
1: ...''' is an [[1888]] [[anthology]] of short [[humor|humorous works]] compiled by [[Mark Twain|Samuel L. Cle...
3: ...d have really been called ''The Harper Library of Humor''.
6: ...wain's_Library_of_Humor ''Mark Twain's Library of Humor'' on Wikisource (Work in progress)]

Banana in my ear (413 bytes)
1: The '''banana in my ear''' genre of humor represents a form of irony. The genre gets its na...
11: *[[self-referential humor]]
14: [[Category:Humor]]

Patrick F. McManus (333 bytes)
1: ...can]] [[outdoors|outdoor]] [[humor]] writer. A humor columnist for [[Outdoor Life]] magazine, his colu...

Localhost (752 bytes)
5: == Humor ==

Triple (1182 bytes)
5: == Triples in humor ==
16: ...low the first two benign ones. This may be found humorous.
22: [[Category:Humor]]

Team Antonsen (476 bytes)
1: '''Team Antonsen''' is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] humor [[television program|program]] which was shown on...
3: The series won the 2004 ''Gullruten'' for best humor show and ''Komiprisen'' (comedy award) for best s...

Crank! Records (633 bytes)
4: ... label's first release was a 7 inch by [[Vitreous Humor]].
22: *[[Vitreous Humor]]

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