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'''Anti-Humor''' is about ''intentionally'' avoiding a punchline. Certainly not all '''Anti-Humor''' ends up being funny, but it should be clear that the writer is trying to create humor from avoiding a punchline or humorous twist. For example, when [[Back to the Future (film)|Biff Tannen]] says "that's as funny as a screen door on a battleship" he's not trying for '''Anti-Humor''', he is simply screwing up the traditional punchline.
Compare/contrast [[Shaggy Dog Story]] where the humor comes from a tediously long story being used to set up a weak punchline. Both types of humor stand traditional wisdom about humor on its head. Could be the source of humor in a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] scenario. Compare [[Bait and Switch]]. Compare also [[The Comically Serious]] when it's a serious ''character'' put into a humorous context. Contrast [[So Unfunny It's Funny]] where the humor is unintentionally bad but so bad it's funny.
{{examples}}
==
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Rorschach's
{{quote|I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... [[Tomato Surprise|I am Pagliacci]]." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. }}▼
== [[Film]] ==▼
* From ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'':▼
{{quote|"What do you call a guy with cheese on his face? ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}l_Mc63WEOik The cheese face!]''"}}▼
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* In his book ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', John Hodgman lists a couple cursed jokes. These are jokes with a setup, but a mundane punch line.▼
{{quote|A priest, a rabbi, and a nonreligious person are flying across the Atlantic Ocean, all for different reasons. There is engine trouble, and one of the wings catches on fire. The plane starts to go down. Luckily, there are enough parachutes for everyone. Evacuation is orderly. End of joke.}}▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* Occurs early on in the ''[[Father Ted]]'' Christmas special when Ted finds a baby [[Door Step Baby|left on the parish doorstep]]. Before Ted can bring the baby in the mother appears, takes the baby from his hands, and heads off to leave the infant with someone else. Ted muses on the [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious hi-jinks]] the priests and the baby would have gotten up to, but stops when Dougal reminds him it wouldn't be funny.▼
* Toward the end of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "The Hellcats", as the biker gang confronts the even-badder-guys on a pier, Joel subverts an old joke into a [[Stealth Pun]] in this way.▼
{{quote|'''Joel''': ''You know guys, this kinda reminds me -- I've been on a seafood diet lately.''▼
'''Servo''': ''Eh, really?''▼
'''Joel''': ''Yeah, I'm eating a lot of fish and shrimp and stuff like that.''▼
(The averted punchline is "I see food, I eat it.") }}▼
* This is basically the point of ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]''. It's [[Cringe Comedy|awkward]], uncomfortable, and often downright scary, but you laugh anyway. If you're into that.▼
* ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'' is one giant example of this. It can have its own page of this, actually.▼
{{quote|'''Dr. Lola Spratt (prepping a little girl for a shot with needle, swab and everything)''': Okay, you're going to feel just a little pinch here ...(she pinches the little girl)▼
'''Little Girl''': Ow! }}▼
== [[Music]] ==▼
* One song of Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese was entirely based on this kind of humour. First of all, the jokes were more than deadpan, since they were told by a vocal synthesizer. Then, among the "normal" jokes, it featured gems such as: "An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German are on a plane. The plane crashes and they die".▼
* In the "Talk Like a Pirate Day" song{{context|Who recorded it?}}, there's an interlude▼
{{quote|'''Q''': ''Did you hear about the new pirate movie?''▼
'''A''': ''No, what's it rated?''▼
'''Q''': ''
== [[Radio]] ==▼
* ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' did one of these in a series of [[Light Bulb Joke|light bulb jokes]].▼
{{quote|'''Q''': ''How many dull people does it take to screw in a light bulb?''▼
'''A''': ''One.'' }}▼
* One episode of ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' featured a round of ''Closed Quotes'' (the panellists get the start of a quote and have to finish it) where the quotes came from Christmas crackers.▼
{{quote|'''Humph:''' Why didn't the skeleton go to the disco?▼
'''Graeme:''' Because he was ''dead''. }}▼
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* Perhaps the best-known joke in the English language is an example: "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!" Few people realize it now, but it was a subversion of older iterations of the joke. Most people hear it before they are old enough to have come to expect the typical conventions of a joke (like a punch line), so the joke is simply [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|unfunny]].
* [[Bill Bailey]] is fond of these.
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{{quote|What's green, has four legs and could kill you if it fell out of a tree?
A pool table. }}
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲* [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach's]] hyperminimal recitation of an old groaner veers into this:
▲{{quote|I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... [[Tomato Surprise|I am Pagliacci]]." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. }}
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* From ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'':
▲{{quote|"What do you call a guy with cheese on his face? ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}l_Mc63WEOik The cheese face!]''"}}
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* In his book ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', John Hodgman lists a couple cursed jokes. These are jokes with a setup, but a mundane punch line.
▲{{quote|A priest, a rabbi, and a nonreligious person are flying across the Atlantic Ocean, all for different reasons. There is engine trouble, and one of the wings catches on fire. The plane starts to go down. Luckily, there are enough parachutes for everyone. Evacuation is orderly. End of joke.}}
▲== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Occurs early on in the ''[[Father Ted]]'' Christmas special when Ted finds a baby [[Door Step Baby|left on the parish doorstep]]. Before Ted can bring the baby in the mother appears, takes the baby from his hands, and heads off to leave the infant with someone else. Ted muses on the [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious hi-jinks]] the priests and the baby would have gotten up to, but stops when Dougal reminds him it wouldn't be funny.
▲* Toward the end of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "The Hellcats", as the biker gang confronts the even-badder-guys on a pier, Joel subverts an old joke into a [[Stealth Pun]] in this way.
▲{{quote|'''Joel''': ''You know guys, this kinda reminds me -- I've been on a seafood diet lately.''
▲'''Servo''': ''Eh, really?''
▲'''Joel''': ''Yeah, I'm eating a lot of fish and shrimp and stuff like that.''
▲(The averted punchline is "I see food, I eat it.") }}
▲* This is basically the point of ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]''. It's [[Cringe Comedy|awkward]], uncomfortable, and often downright scary, but you laugh anyway. If you're into that.
▲* ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'' is one giant example of this. It can have its own page of this, actually.
▲{{quote|'''Dr. Lola Spratt (prepping a little girl for a shot with needle, swab and everything)''': Okay, you're going to feel just a little pinch here ...(she pinches the little girl)
▲'''Little Girl''': Ow! }}
▲== [[Music]] ==
▲* One song of Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese was entirely based on this kind of humour. First of all, the jokes were more than deadpan, since they were told by a vocal synthesizer. Then, among the "normal" jokes, it featured gems such as: "An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German are on a plane. The plane crashes and they die".
▲* In the "Talk Like a Pirate Day" song, there's an interlude
▲{{quote|'''Q''': ''Did you hear about the new pirate movie?''
▲'''A''': ''No, what's it rated?''
▲'''Q''': ''[[PG 13]]. They want to appeal to younger audiences, and pirates are really popular with that age group.'' }}
▲== [[Radio]] ==
▲* ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' did one of these in a series of [[Light Bulb Joke|light bulb jokes]].
▲{{quote|'''Q''': ''How many dull people does it take to screw in a light bulb?''
▲'''A''': ''One.'' }}
▲* One episode of ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' featured a round of ''Closed Quotes'' (the panellists get the start of a quote and have to finish it) where the quotes came from Christmas crackers.
▲{{quote|'''Humph:''' Why didn't the skeleton go to the disco?
▲'''Graeme:''' Because he was ''dead''. }}
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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* One clip in [[Asdfmovie]] has a guy pressing a button that reads [[Schmuck Bait|"POINTLESS BUTTON: Warning, pointless"]]. It does absolutely nothing.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html strip #600].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905191843/http://morningglory.excision-gaming.com/index.php Morning Glory]'' (NSFW)
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* ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]''. On [https://web.archive.org/web/20140220153454/http://tallcomics.com/?id=107 this page], Unwinder's box of rejected ideas includes "Normal Al", who parodies [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] by sucking all the humor out. Basically, Normal Al plays straight covers of the songs that Weird Al parodies, and rewrites Weird Al's original songs with completely serious lyrics.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/jokes-with-realistic.php This] [[Something Awful]] article.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113123808/http://averagecats.com/ Average Cats] is a gallery of Anti-Humor [[LOLcats]].
** From the same people, [http://unrelatedcaptions.com/ Unrelated Captions] is a site that subverts caption humor by taking pictures and... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well, guess.]]
* [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Anti-humor Uncyclopedia] has an article that, for [[Uncyclopedia]], counts as a [[Self-Demonstrating Article]] as it delivers a straightforward description of what Anti-Humor is.
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* [http://anti-joke.com/ Anti-Joke.] This is the whole point of this site.
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19213_7-animals-that-are-evolving-right-before-our-eyes.html 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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