Jokes

thumbnail|upright=1.25|Boris Yeltsin and [[Bill Clinton enjoying a joke]] A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the humorous element of the story is revealed; this can be done using a pun or other type of word play, irony or sarcasm, logical incompatibility, hyperbole, or other means. Linguist Robert Hetzron offers the definition:

comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor

biology and psychology phenomenon

In Spanish and Latin American literature, a is a short statement, usually one sentence, in which the author expresses a philosophical, pragmatic, or humorous idea in a witty and original way. A greguería is roughly similar to an aphorism or a one-liner joke in comedy. It is a rhetorical and stylistic device.

wit and humor in Jewish culture

joke made by President Reagan during the Cold War

Monty Python sketch

grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect

joke that is delivered in a single line

type of short joke

Lazzi (; from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) are stock comedic routines that are associated with ''commedia dell'arte. Performers, especially those playing the masked Arlecchino, had many examples of this in their repertoire, and would use improvisatory skills to weave them into the plot of dozens of different commedia'' scenarios. These largely physical sequences could be improvised or preplanned within the performance and were often used to enliven the audience when a scene was dragging, to cover a dropped line or cue, or to delight an expectant audience with the troupe's specialize

type of joke, where humor is alluding to on-self or the subject displaying the humor

humorous weather forecasting tool

conversational literary device

A paraprosdokian (), or '''par'hyponoian''', is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists, such as Groucho Marx.

form of joke

usually-obscene joke about a performance act

jokes about East Germans

prop or toy intended to confuse, frighten, or amuse individuals as a prank

term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research

wit and humor in Arab culture