Examples Of Humor

Humor is something that everyone can relate to. It's all around us, used every day, by everyone. Below, I’ve found three comedic items that tickled my funny bone. I made sure that each one actually made me laugh, therefore actually possessing humor rather than attempting to be humorous. Although they all share a similarity in being funny, each one captures a different aspect humor. One touches the ironic side of humor, while another touches the dark side, and the other one hits the slapstick humor. Humor is all around us and should be enjoyed and embraced. Let’s jump in. In this first cartoon, we have presented a couple of vegetables surrounding Onion. Onion is on the floor holding on to the leg that he apparently had cut. The humor comes

My mother didn’t realize I cut myself and said the onions didn't smell that bad until i showed her my hand. We then proceeded to put a band-aid on it and I wasn't allowed to touch a knife until I was 10.

This cartoon touches the slapstick part of humor because it makes fun of Onion getting hurt. Dictionary.com states that slapstick is “broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes”. The next type of humor we’ll be going into is called dark humor My second cartoon, as shown on the previous page, is a little sad. It shows two guys, one with parkinson’s disease, and the other, his friend. The guy with parkinson’s disease (which is a disease that attacks the nervous system and causes you to tremor uncontrollably) seems pretty down about it and when his friend asks him how he's holding up, he responds he’s shaken up.His friend proceeds to laugh and then tries to explain on why he's laughing. While trying to explain he realizes his mistakes and lets his friend continued

I feel that this can be related to almost everyone in the sense that, almost everyone has laughed at a specifically inappropriate time. Dark humor, by dictionary.com’s definition states that dark humor is “a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic”. Now some people get dark humor and irony mixed up, which is our next and final humor example. My final humorous picture is very simple. It's a stone that says, “nothing is Written In Stone”. Nothing is written in stone is a pretty renowned quote, meaning nothing is permanent. The fact that they engraved a stone with the word that nothing is permanent is where the irony kicks in. I can’t exactly relate to this one as I did the previous two, although I can state a counter argument to the quote and list a few examples of where this situation, something engraved in stone, has happened before. Yet, before I do that, the definition given by dictionary.com of irony states “the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic