Jokes!!! Can you define a joke? Well, a joke can be termed as nothing but those things which are said for the sole purpose of amusement or laughter. On an average, everybody hears at least one joke in a day. But do you know that there are categories for every joke that is exists. Let us have a look at them.
- Irony
Intended meaning is opposite of literal meaning. The expression of one’s meaning by utilizing language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
- Character
Comedic character acting on personality traits! These types of jokes are performed by mimicking of characters that are comedy enough even they do normal stuff.
- Reference
Common experiences that audiences can relate to; this type of comedy is enjoyed by the audience as they relate to the situation or thing that is being spoken about. The main reason as to why audience enjoys this type of comedy is because they too have been in same situation.
- Shock
Surprising jokes typically involving sex, drugs, gross-out humor, swearing; these mainly consist of adult jokes that are not safe for work. They are surprising since it takes time for the human brain to process the joke which we normally tend to avoid.
- Parody
Mimic a character, trope, genre with deliberate exaggeration; this includes over-doing of characteristic of a certain character which results in laughter.
- Hyperbole
Exaggeration to silly extremes; this is typically lack of common sense in normal tasks that results in comedy.
- Wordplay
Puns, rhymes, double entendres, etc.; it includes playing with the words especially with those creating double meanings.
- Analogy
Comparing two disparate things
- Madcap
Crazy, wacky, silly, nonsensical; doing random insane stuff that cannot be observed in normal people.
- Meta-humor
Jokes about jokes, or about the idea of comedy; includes mostly sarcasm.
- Misplaced Focus
Attention is focused on the wrong thing thereby creating laughter.
So friends, hope you have now started realizing the category of joke that you have laughed on recently. Anyways, hence forward do not start categorizing the joke, instead laugh aloud and enjoy.
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