Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Adventures in Anti-Humor

A type of humor that involves a joke-teller delivering a punchline deliberately lacking meaning -- like, "no soap, radio." The audience expects something funny, but when this doesn't happen, the irony is intended to be of comedic value. Usually the audience just feels stupid, but laughs anyway.

I guess it's considered post modern or something. Some people think it's clever. I think about this guy on with the big orange head and how how hard it must be to floss with such a tiny mouth.

Keep watching this space.